Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state house of representatives. But although many whites continued to resist the inevitability of full-scale Negro political participation, there were heartening signs of reasonableness. Amid warnings of violence uttered by embittered Macon County whites, Sheriff Sadler took pains to call his defeat "fair and square" and to wish Amerson luck. "I think the white people knew," said Sadler, "that sooner or later there would be a Negro elected to this office...
...Every time Detroit makes cars [May 20] that are too long, too big, and too expensive, car sales drop, and we have to listen to theories about the "sagging economy" and "tight money." I wish the manufacturers would get out of those smoke-filled rooms and ask me how to run the auto business. What most of us want is a small, good-looking, economical car, as demonstrated by our eagerness to buy the compacts. Since they've made those bigger and bigger, we've stopped buying them. I notice Mustang sales haven't dropped...
...confusion. A survey by social scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford University found that most Americans still share a visceral instinct that the U.S. should not withdraw. How ever, said Western Pollster Don Muchmore, "there is a complete lack of belief that we can win. People wish we'd never gotten in, but say we've got to continue to help South Viet Nam." The Gallup poll reported that between January and April the proportion of those queried who approve Johnson's Viet Nam policy decreased from 56% to 54%, while those who disapprove increased...
...trying to build a nation," he said. "They have to do this in the teeth of Communist efforts to take the country over by force. It is a hard and frustrating job, and there is no easy answer-no instant solution-to any of the problems they face. Our wish is to see them increasingly able to manage their own affairs with the participation of an even broader share of the population. We regret any diversion from that task and from efforts to defeat the Communists' attempt to take over South Viet...
...dissatisfaction in the U.S. over the situation in Viet Nam, the President managed to sound cool and detached. "The longer we are there, the more sacrifices we make and the more we spend, the more discontent there will be," he noted. "The more dissatisfaction there will be, the more wish and desire there will be to get out. If you want to feel that it troubles you 100%, just double that for the President and make...