Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps Cardinal O'Boyle is at least partly correct when he says that many of us wish to tear down everything and put nothing in its place. We do, indeed, put "no thing" in its place. We put what we find to be true relationship with God there. And that's not a "thing." We find it a very real abstract...
...charter member of "Cowards Anonymous," I wish that the nation's railroads would seriously consider stepping up their efforts to provide faster, more efficient travel service for us groundlings. There must be millions of us! I have taken my last flight! Having won an all-expense vacation in Mexico City recently, I came very close to abandoning husband, children and country because I lost my courage to fly home...
When Luis Alberto Ferré, 64, a wealthy, M. I. T. -trained engineer, defeated the PTJ.P. candidate for the governorship two weeks ago, Muñoz waited a week to wish him luck. The 70-year-old statesman also held a post-election press conference to point out the error of Ferré's political ways. Luis Negrón López gave out a premature victory statement early on Election Night, when he was 15,000 votes ahead. When final returns showed him to be the loser by a margin of 390,000 to 367,000, Negr...
...emotion. "Happiness," one of the boys suggested: so for a while they were happy, then thankful, then obsessed, then lonely, and then sad. "I can't seem to do this," said a tall boy in corduroy pants and a bright polka dot shirt. "There isn't enough space. I wish we were on a football field." The leader of the group tried to help him, while the others paired off to express themselves...
...long, someone reaching immortality and then begging to die. Yes, for sure, Yale will want to lose some day, sooner or later, just to make its winning more meaningful. That is what happened to the New York Yankees. In politics I think it is called the liberal death wish...