Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to push the point too far. Though the New Left and New Right use a very similar critique of the Liberal Establishment, they disagree profoundly, and perhaps irreconcilably, when it comes to proposals and affirmations...
...What do you wish to name your daughter?" asked the city hall clerk. "Gaullette," proudly replied the French father. "Impossible!" cried the fonctionnaire. "That is not a name but a profession of political faith. Pick another...
...brim overflowed three years later when critics called the 18-year-old fashion model turned actress "an adolescent cougar." "If you want anything, just whistle," she said to Bogie in To Have, and there is hardly a man alive over 40 who didn't wish she'd answer his whistle. Bogie married her (she was his fourth and final wife), and for thousands of nostalgic fans she has been Bogie's babe ever since...
...Jesus was asked by Peter to reveal to them a mystery. Answered Christ: "O my chosen one, Peter, and you, my fellow heirs, I have not hidden anything from you ever concerning which you have asked me, nor shall I hide anything from you. Ask me anything that you wish to know, and I shall reveal it to you." Peter then asked Jesus to explain the mystery of the Cross, and why he will carry it at the Last Judgment. "O my chosen one, Peter, and you my brethren," answered Jesus, "you know the lies which were told against...
Contrary to the Marxists and the socialists, Keynes opposed government ownership of industry and fought those centralists who would plan everything ("They wish to serve not God but the devil"). While he called for conscious and calculated state intervention, he argued just as passionately that the government had no right to tamper with individual freedoms to choose or change jobs, to buy or sell goods, or to earn respectable profits. He had tremendous faith that private men could change, improve and expand capitalism...