Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bore & Dig. "The object is definitely the most important thing to me," says Jamie. "In portraits I just wish I could drop myself out of it completely. It would be fantastic if you could just get a second person down on canvas without yourself in it," More, generally, he wants "to be involved in a little world, bore into it, dig into it and the hell with everything else...
...late in the second period when Raichlin, behind 5-1, tried to escape. Unfortunately, when he was subjected to a normal takedown maneuver, he tore a quadriceps ligament in his knee. I wish that it were only a sprained ankle. I am sure Joel Raichlin, who will be on crutches for six weeks, wishes similarly. Benjamin Rix Brooks...
...much reason to regret that Cassius has provided the Muslims with a public forum for their philosophy. We may hope like hell that Floyd Patterson can work his way up the heavyweight ladder, defeat Clay, and then quietly preach the Urban League doctrine from the throne. Or, we might wish for the good old days when fighters fought, kept their social and religious convictions to themselves, and left the civil rights movement for quicker minds to deal with...
...twiddling his thumbs at the top of the contenders' ladder, a few of us were willing to accept Floyd as the best heavyweight around. With Cassius Clay exiled from the boxing world no one will recognize Doug Jones or Ernie Terrell as a legitimate champion. Much as Lassman might wish that only nice Baptist boys from healthy middle class homes would take up boxing, that just is not the case. It just is not boxing
...vast majority of women who take the pills do not want to be made infertile; they merely wish to space their pregnancies and control the number of their children. Almost invariably they ask: "If I take the pills for a couple of years, and then stop, will I be able to conceive?" The answer is an emphatic yes. By a sort of rebound effect, the pills increase fertility in women who stop taking them. Indeed, the pills were largely developed by a Roman Catholic gynecologist, Boston's Dr. John Rock, working with Biologist Gregory...