Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...privilege of auditing any number of courses without charge is one of the distinctive and most valuable aspects of Harvard during the regular school year. Unfortunately, this opportunity is not available during the summer session. Students who wish to attend the lectures of a course are required to pay rather stiff fees for the privilege...
...very pleased to read your story on Dr. Alain Enthoven, since he exemplifies the top talent we seek in our quest for quality careerists to meet the many demands for excellence in Government today. I wish the story had mentioned that Dr. Enthoven was one of five recent (June 12) recipients of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service -the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a career civil servant. At age 32, Dr. Enthoven is the youngest of the 31 careerists who have received this high honor to date...
Gerry Kirshenbaum added: "I left the plane all wrong and landed all wrong, but those two minutes in between were wonderful. The air was so quiet. You can't even hear the plane. And the ground seemed to 'stay away' until the last few seconds. I wish I had stayed up longer...
Both crewmen and superiors are forever saying things to Kennedy that 20 years later they probably wish they had not. "You got a brain like a seed pearl," splutters one sailor after Lieut, (j.g.) Kennedy has accidentally dumped a bucket of dirty water over him. And the running gag all through PT 109 is oh-boy-think-of-talking-like-that-to-the-President-of-the-U.S. But nothing upsets Kennedy's dedication to duty, and sometimes he sounds as if he were rehearsing an inaugural address at some happier future time. "Think these men will...
...famous Catholic author, Morin does not wish to create a scandal by not going to church, at least on Christmas Eve. But when he goes, he dares not take Communion. Why? Ostensibly, because of a sinful love affair. But the affair is long over, and he still cannot bring himself to take Communion. Tortuously, he argues that if he no longer had any faith at all, he could take Communion without a qualm. The fact that he cannot is his last lingering hope: perhaps his loss of faith is visited on him as a judgment. "As long as I keep...