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Word: wishfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main reason for the high crime rate in the U.S. today is the lack of law enforcement and the laxity and slow process of the courts in punishing offenders. The gun run now in progress is certainly not being carried out by potential criminals but rather by citizens who wish to protect themselves and their families, since they can no longer depend on the authorities to do this job. Before we do something foolish in a time when we are guided by our emotions rather than our reason, we may do well to recall the words of Benjamin Franklin: "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 5, 1968 | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Century," teenagers across the country latched onto the dresses by the rackful. Commented Monsignor Joseph T.V. Snee, who oversees all 8,000 Catholic nuns in the Archdiocese of New York: "If the women of our times have now decided to imitate the religious garb of our sisters, I sure wish they would also try to imitate their habits-especially those of modesty, purity and chastity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Minihabit | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Continental Airlines President Robert Forman Six has an obsession about the company that he has headed for 30 years: he would like tenth-largest Continental to be the biggest in some aspect of the aviation industry. Last week, three days after his 61st birthday, Bob Six got his wish. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Continental's president dedicated a new $6,500,000 air-cargo terminal that is the biggest such structure in the world. If it were picked up, straightened out and moved to downtown Chicago, the new terminal would stretch for four blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Six at 61 | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...here's to Yakov Malik's wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: DOGGEREL FOR DIPLOMATS | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...well as into the obsolete and the useless." He told students to "get off the mourner's bench; you must not cloak yourself in the mantle of a wailing Cassandra. The great revolution represents birth pangs and not death throes, the life force and not the death wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Of Reason & Revolution | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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