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Word: wishfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to thank you for the splendid cover picture of the Sept. 20 issue of TIME. Governor Spiro Agnew has a wonderful face; it shows force, honesty, intelligence and kindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1968 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...hasty. At week's end, however, the Bulgarian government released the four Italian youths who had demonstrated in Sofia, and Hungary freed its five protesters, including Robert Eaton, 24, of Philadelphia. Were the demonstrations useful? Miss Rovere, safely back in London, summed it up this way: "I wish that I had had a real chance to talk to people, but I think we accomplished something worthwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protest: Pacifist Raids | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...booth to deliver a kind of prose love poem to his Führer. The speech rises toward erotic ecstasy so that the climaxing "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" is an orgasm of fanaticism. It terrifyingly evokes Hitler's own idea that the masses are feminine and wish to be seduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Act of Atonement | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...those who prefer not to. All of the districts broadened the eligibility requirements to include people who were once exempt. Lawyers, doctors, nurses and a few other groups, who were usually excluded in the past, may now be excused on request but may choose to serve if they wish to. By raising the juror's fee from $10 to $20 a day (and $16 a night for those who travel long distances and must stay overnight), the courts also implied that they would no longer excuse many persons who claim that jury duty is a financial burden. Even women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: An End to Peerless Juries | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...Edgar Smith guilty?" Author Smith asks on the penultimate page. "If at this point the reader cannot respond with an emphatic 'yes', then I shall consider this book a success." Most readers will feel that he has raised sufficient doubts about the case, but many will wish that their response could have been more enthusiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do It? | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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