Word: wishful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than three great nations of Europe might have been "those who wish to prevent Portugal's rearmament...
...factory first agreed to supply them, then demanded a written declaration that the arms were exclusively for the Portuguese Army, finally welched on the entire order. Portugal, insisting that the factory was actually Government owned and that cancellation of the order had been made "under pressure of those who wish to prevent or impede Portugal's rearmament," broke relations without further warning. Behind this act lay a simple inference...
...general, Author Crow's problem was one of learning (by U. S. advertising standards) to do business standing on his head-a position which produced a remarkable number of headaches. In explanation he cites the Chinese consumer's upsidedown wish to buy rather than be sold, his perverse refusal to switch brands once satisfied with the one he has got, resulting in an all-round sales resistance calculated to turn an occidental adman's hair grey. Example: Smarting under the British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising...
...private brands are cut in other markets," said Mr. Clarke, "but it will not permit them to be cut within its own trade area. ... If this is not an acceptance by R. H. Macy & Co. of the principle of price maintenance within its own trading area, I certainly wish Mr. Ralph Straus or Mr. Q. Forrest Walker, Macy's economist, would explain what...
...reputation of most terrible literary infant of the year. Since then William Saroyan has been increasingly a problem child. Critics and readers alike have been impressed by his audacity, displeased by his bounding ego. His coldest dispraisers admit that he sometimes blurts out a suggestive truth; his warmest admirers wish occasionally that he would not shout so loud. Last week Saroyan's fourth book, Little Children, well illustrated his inclusive vices and his eclectic virtues. Of the 17 stories printed, perhaps half were worth it; five certainly did him credit, lent weight to the belief that...