Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from a satellite. Not everyone, of course, can be expected to view this possibility with enthusiasm. The Russians would not like the idea of every dacha in the Ukraine receiving broadcasts from New York, nor would the U.S. wish to hear instant Communist propaganda broadcasts on Channel...
...been no U.N. peace-keeping mission in the past decade that has not prominently included Canadian troops. Yet Canada has been able to fulfill this role only because it is not a major world power. Most Canadians accept their country's role as a middle power, but still wish that Canada could display more initiative...
...tirades of aggression, a put-down comedian, and a lover of English whose sentences curl with the involuted beauty of a sea shell, but when he puts on his thinking cap, he is a poseur. To embrace everyone is to be no one. A Delicate Balance is a wish for oblivion posing as a plea for love, and its fine cast and funny lines cannot hide its phony bones...
However, an increasing number of short sellers do not have to buy to cover because they already own the shares. About one-third of all short selling is merely "selling against the box," a device to delay tax payments. Instead of cashing in the stock that they wish to dispose of, sophisticated traders often go short in it and cover by delivering their own stock on Ian. 2, thereby putting Off tax payments on their profits for twelve months. "Selling against the box" usually causes the short interest to rise late in the year and fall in January. Short interest...
...bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and happy ship. All the 99 officers and men aboard could have stepped right out of an old MGM movie. In fact, after a while, the reader begins to wish that a Mr. Roberts would appear to toss the captain's palm tree overboard, or that Skipper Adler would start rolling a couple of ball bearings in his hands...