Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flew to Lexington, Ky., received his 26th honorary degree, and told 12,000 University of Kentucky students: "If you wish a sheltered and uneventful life, you are living in the wrong generation. No one can promise you calm, or ease, or undisturbed comfort. But we can promise you this. We can promise enormous challenge and arduous struggle, hard labor and great danger. And with them we can promise you triumph over all the enemies...
...open letter, he accused Elijah of having fathered eight illegitimate babies by six teen-age secretaries at Black Muslim headquarters in Chicago. Other defectors-including two of Elijah's sons-began following Malcolm out of the sect. Naturally, this did not sit well with Elijah. "Only those who wish to be led to hell, or to their doom, will follow Malcolm," said his biweekly newspaper, Muhammad Speaks. "The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape...
...Casement's last request was: "When they have done with me, don't let my bones lie in this dreadful place. Take me back to Ireland and let me lie there." In a long-delayed but gracious gesture, Prime Minister Harold Wilson granted Casement's dying wish...
...Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter of a Congregational minister. F.D.R. phoned Cambridge, where he caught his friend dressing for dinner. Standing in his underwear, Frankfurter heard the "warmth-enveloping" voice asking him to succeed Cardozo. "All I can say," muttered Frankfurter "is that I wish my mother were alive...
Moreau looks back on her first desire to act as a child's wish to escape her own identity-"I was tired of being myself. I wanted to be someone else." Her parents had separated while she was at the Conservatoire, and her mother, after 24 difficult years in France, had returned to England with Jeanne's sister, Michelle. The separation tugged Jeanne in opposite directions, as indeed it still does: though she sympathizes with her mother, she is her father's child. The only English trait Moreau admits to is a thirst for tea with milk...