Word: wished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nehru usually spoke without notes, ramblingly and frankly. At an Overseas Press Club luncheon, asked if he wished his remarks to stay off the record, he cracked: "How can you be off the record to 500 people?" In his low, Cantabrigian voice, which carried only traces of Asian inflections, he expressed a noncommittal and slightly distant good will to the U.S. India, said Pandit Nehru, does "not wish to forfeit the advantage which our present detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally...
...Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...have a case, however, in that many of the strongest independents are opposed to Plan E government, and sworn to remove at least the PR section of the city Charter. With the system working well now, and expected to do better, there is little reason to elect men who wish to return to conditions of ten years ago. But the Association can conduct its campaigns more carefully in the future--many independents deserve fairer treatment...
...total and universal want of manners, both in males and females," she was either assured that the rudeness in question was a local "peculiarity" ("You know so little of America"), or she met the fierce retort: "Our manners are very good manners, and we don't wish any changes from England...
...stating that it is "frankly totalitarian," you ignore the fact that a large part of its backing comes from others than ex-Nazis. P.W.'s recently returned from the U.S.S.R., younger voters, and persons who wish neither a communist "People's Democracy" nor the current clumsy bureaucracy set up by the arch-conservative forces of the Socialist Party-People's Party coalition, swelled the total gained by the League...