Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been the same, without ambassadors, United Nations, and economic help. And now, when he is 72, our only problem is to find another competent statesman to follow his path and shun the ways of some sticky Westerners. Meanwhile, the U.S. in it's own interest should wish us good luck...
...build an airbase for launching more bombing raids into North Viet Nam. Although the President solemnly declared that "our firmness may well have brought us closer to peace," he admitted to reporters last week: "It's a mess. There is no question about that. I wish it was better...
Greenberg asserted that Title VI authorities should not approve so-called "freedom of choice" plans, under which school officials abolish formal school zones and tell Negroes that they can attend any school they wish. "In these cases," he said, "community pressure and the momentum of segregation will keep things entirely of almost entirely as they have been...
Blau admits that Happy Days, with its two characters and mound of earth, is a difficult and ambitious play, more ambitious than large productions which pretend to encompass a "great event." For Beckett and Blau wish to do nothing less than tell the truth about the human condition, as they see it, and to tell it obliquely, comically, and ironically-which is perhaps the only way it can be told. They also wish to close the gaps between the actors and the play and between the audience and the dramatic production. In the few places where they fail, the audience...
...words and an extra metrical foot to the line but also (and here I speak) with all the pedantry at my command) changes Fitzgerald’s rather archaic "were." meaning "would be" in the apodosis of a conditional sentence, into part of an portative construction, expressing a wish. To my car this conveys a little more fervor about the Yard than more gallantry to the cow would require. Robert Fitzgerald Lecturer on English