Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to offer my congratulations on the excellent article on Prime Minister Sato and the contemporary political situation in Japan. However, I am constrained to draw your attention to the passage in which it is stated that Prime Minister "Sato . . . was on the verge of sending a token number of troops to aid Saigon before the U.S. buildup and the bombing of the north began." The sending of troops abroad by Japan is prohibited under the provisions of our constitution and, therefore, as policy, it is inconceivable that the government should send troops abroad and the Japanese government has consequently...
...Last semester there was nobody here even close to my own age who could help explain things to me." An administrator, on the other hand, explains that there is a full list of advisors available to students: "At various times before reaching decisions she may need counsel or may wish to talk freely with an older person about her academic or personal life. At such times she can turn to her dean who keeps in touch with her academic progress and her personal welfare, to her instructors including the ordained ministers in the department of Biblical history, to the resident...
When a Japanese prepares to make a wish, he is apt to buy a one-eyed doll modeled after the famed Buddhist monk Daruma, who founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...
...last week urged tolerance for Mao's enemies. "To regard all persons in authority as untrustworthy is wrong," warned Red Flag, adding sweetly: "In party and government organizations, enterprises and undertakings, the majority of ordinary cadres are good." It sounded for the moment as though Mao may wish to work out some form of compromise before China is completely destroyed. Perhaps it was his own temporary form of a New Year's truce...
...order to stay in touch with his students, Alden holds twice-monthly breakfasts with them and semiannual conferences at which they can grill him on any topic they wish. He also plans to spend occasional nights in the dorms. Alden often shucks his glasses and joins students in a pickup basketball game on the court behind the presidential house. His kind of enthusiasm spreads to his staff. At many universities, says Fine Arts Dean Jack Morrison, things "slow down at the top-but that's where things begin to swing around here...