Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educational community, namely to teach responsibility by giving freedom in a framework of wise counsel and affectionate support. I then spent one minute on my "alarming frankness," namely, the insoluble problems of being a husband and father without allowing marriage to become an inhibiting jail--(by the way, I wish young Brackman would bring up three good children of his own before lecturing his elders on the responsibilities of fatherhood); and the rough go of being bisexual in our mores. I then, turned, for nine minutes, to some topics to bear in mind: the provincialism and brief history...
...enjoyment with an old woman is at least equal and frequently superior, every knack being by practice capable of improvement." The Earl of Pembroke, anxious to see his son restore the family fortunes by settling into a good marriage instead of a military career, writes with Georgian bluntness: "I wish you would draw, not your sword, but your precious member...
...Bridges, far more than most labor leaders, has faced the challenge of automation. In 1960 his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union reached an agreement with management's Pacific Maritime Association. Under that pact the employers can introduce as many labor-saving machines as they wish - at a price of $5,000,000 a year in retirement and other benefits for Bridges' boys. The agreement is paying off for both shippers and dock workers...
...London nursing home, except for the last four months, when he was taken to East Berlin for what his far-leftist wife, Eslanda, described as "a medical examination." Now "he is to all intents and purposes retired," says Eslanda, who does practically all the talking. "He does not wish to see anyone or give any interviews. Nor does he wish to be photographed, because he has lost a lot of weight and is very self-conscious about being thin...
...come to light," he cried, not "to happen."* In hope of, he insisted, not in hopes of. Owing to means "because of," he warned; due to means "the result of." In hope of making the difference between will and shall transpire, Lambuth brandished the Anglo-Saxon words, willan (to wish, to be about to) and sculan (to be obliged). If an act is owing to free will, he ordered, use "I will." If it is due to an outside force, use "I shall." I will be married, but I shall be drafted...