Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish Gary Wilson a successful career in geology. Perhaps he can begin by examining the rocks in his head...
...without the presence of an attorney, and a statement is taken, a heavy burden rests on the Government to demonstrate that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his privilege against selfincrimination" and his right to counsel. And whenever an uncounseled suspect "indicates in any manner" that he does not wish to be interrogated, the police may not question...
...remarried to a moneyed German divorcee, Sheppard has declared that he wants a retrial to establish his innocence. Although the state case against him may now largely rest on dead or forgetful witnesses, Sheppard got his wish last week from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan, who ordered a retrial because "society has been the victim of a heinous crime, and it demands redress...
...daily course of local politics. Most members of the Administration tend to regard the City's politicians as inconveniences--illogical, disorganized obstacles who are to be feared as much for their irrationality as for their deliberate calculations. They see Cambridge as a community without coherence or distinguishing characteristics. They wish there were a greater degree of homogeneity among different elements. Instead, they accept the inevitability of periodic conflict, and see the University, associated as it is with the upper class crust of the City, as a major component of the bipolar alignment that has traditionally characterized Cambridge: "the Brattle Street...
...though he did tell a wry tale about his portrait of the lady in London's Upper Grosvenor Gallery. "This woman came all the way from California to my studio in Florence," he chuckled. "She said: 'I have the most beautiful body in the world, and I wish you to paint me in the nude.' I had never had a proposition like that before. I thought it was a commission. As it turned out, it wasn't. All she wanted was to be painted in the nude by a great artist." So now the great artist...