Word: wishfully
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This situation is not solely the fault of the teaching fellows. Graduate students who wish to teach must squeeze in pedagogical duties between the demands of their own courses, the pressure of a thesis, worries about future employment, and often, the cares of a new family. No wonder many of them much prefer hefty fellowships which relieve them of the need to teach. And no wonder both the graduate students and the departments concerned often regard teaching fellowships as a supplementary form of financial...
There is always a chance that humor, good or dubious, will work some unexpected hurt. I would be the last to wish that this might be so. In a collection of ironical essays commented on recently in the CRIMSON and with which I am sufficiently identified, mention is made of a absent minded professor of comparative literature at Harvard. I am reminded that this might conceivably be taken as a reference to either a very great scholar recently dead or to one of my very great friends, Actually, of course, a generic academic type and no particular person was intended...
Using the aircraft's radio telephone, Johnson called Mrs. Rose Kennedy, told her: "I wish to God that there was something I could do. I just wanted you to know that." He handed the phone to Lady Bird. "We feel like the heart has been cut out of us," she said. "Our love and our prayers are with you." Johnson called Nellie Connally, wife of the wounded Texas Governor, and said hopefully: "We are praying with you, darling, and I know that everything is going to be all right...
...NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY. "We are not taking any needless risks for peace. But neither are we foreclosing the future. We have no desire to perpetuate the burdens and dangers of the cold war, no ambition to doom mankind to the accumulated folly of an intensified arms race, no wish to convince the Soviets that even reasonable proposals will be rejected by us without fair or adequate consideration...
...last week performed another typically slippery gyration. Instead of rushing right into Peking's arms, he turned to his old colonial tutor, France, and asked her to help replace U.S. aid. Said the Prince: "For our country, liberated from the U.S. and which the Communist powers do not wish to take in charge, it could be the hour of France...