Word: wisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea receded as the week progressed, partly because tradition is not easily abandoned in the church, and because the Cardinals are only too aware of the unpredictability of human life and death. (It was recalled that Leo XIII was notably frail but lived to be 93. When a well-wisher said to him, "May you live to be 100," he replied: "Why do you want to set limits on Divine Providence?") Even so, the health factor swiftly eliminated one attractive candidate, Brazil's Aloisio Lorscheider, 54, who had just spent two or three days in a hospital intensive-care...
Shapp's technique is to shake with his full hand and to bear down with his thumb on the well-wisher's muscle, and then "even a steel-worker couldn...
...pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop if you get sick...
Anna once left a letter on her husband's desk telling him his wife had taken a lover, and signed it "a well-wisher." Dostoevsky almost choked when he read it. She explained that it was a "practical joke" to test his trust in her, and the familiar scene re-enacted itself: a humiliating appeal for her pardon, her acceptance of his apologies, and a blissful reunion...
...KISSINGER-ISRAEL IS NOT FOR SALE. Kissinger studiously ignored the aerial lobbying, hoping it would go away, and it did. Then the stadium announcer came on the loudspeaker to boom out a hearty welcome to "Dr. Harry Kissinger." (This was not Kissinger's only such difficulty: one well-wisher hailed him as "the best Defense Secretary we've ever...