Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graduate School from working more than 3/5ths time; in fact, 2/5ths time, the ceiling which the Graduate School now intends to impose upon its Five Year Fellows during the years in which they must support themselves, has tended to be a practical limit for most teaching fellows who wish to get on with their graduate work...
...girl (Janice Rule) and a young boy conspire to knock off the villain next time he shows up, the mayor (Henry Fonda) is too frightened to kill and too tired to run. Anxious only to rebuild Hard Times and make it a good place for business, he gets his wish when Keenan Wynn jounces into town with a wagonload of cuties to entertain the local miners. Pretty soon the whole town swings like a pair of saloon doors, and gold and whisky are as plentiful as hossflies...
...expenses? Merely "sloppy bookkeeping" by one of the four disaffected aides who instigated the investigation by filching Dodd's private papers and letting Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson copy them. The testimonial dinners? "Commonplace, openly conducted, but in view of the abuse I've received, I wish I'd never heard of one." The free use of a car? "Now what's wrong with that? Other people had lent me cars. I never did anything for any of them that I wouldn't do for anyone else...
...days of delay, the King followed his subjects' example and went along with the new government in hopes of directing it to a more moderate course. "Greece has gone through very hard trials recently," he said in his first meeting with the new Cabinet. "It is my fervent wish that the country revert to parliamentary government as soon as possible." When he appeared at midnight Mass in Athens to mark the Orthodox Easter, the crowds applauded...
...with experience in intelligence work, feel that he could have been kidnaped for a ransom not yet demanded. But they lean toward the belief that he was abducted for political motives. What political motives? They are not sure, but feel that he may be the prisoner of Communists who wish to use him as some sort of intermediary or in a propaganda ploy. They point out, for example, that Thompson knew many of Ho Chi Minh's agents at the time of the Japanese defeat in World...