Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...customer President Irving Stone describes as "that sweet little old lady who remembers everybody." Hi Brows are for younger people who want something a little spicier than sugar. Indeed, Hi Brows sometimes hang over the brink of bad taste. "For your birthday," reads one, "just a refreshing wish . . . may your cesspool never clog." For graduation, American Greetings has a suitable Hi Brow: "Your jaw is firm, your gaze is steady, your mind is alert, your head is high . . . your fly is open." Anyone who is tired of traditional Christmas cards can pick up a Hi Brow: "You may be getting...
...descendants of the bolomen, I wish to inform you that I (and millions of other Filipinos) have never carried a gun in my life. I was born in Tondo and lived there many years, but I didn't realize that the collection of trash and scrap paper is the principal occupation in my birthplace. In all my Jeepney-riding years, I have never had pigs and call girls as co-passengers. Both are easy to identify in my country...
Republic, and urged them to vote Gaullist in next year's parliamentary elections. He invited the U.S. to leave Viet Nam and let the Vietnamese "settle their affairs in their own fashion," even if the Americans find "the political consequences not what they wish...
...resemblance was sufficient, in fact, to launch Mireille on a career that has become, as one French magazine termed it, "a tornado, a cyclone, a cataclysm." Dressed in the death-wish black that was Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face...
...sure some of these failures will be corrected tonight. I wish all of them could be, for Woyzeck, despite its ambiguity and confusion can make an interesting evening's entertainment...