Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trim off 15 lbs. by playing tennis, often with G.O.P. National Chairman Rogers Morton or Postmaster General Winton Blount. One thing that Agnew has not sacrificed is his pro football : this season he has made it to five Colts games, usually ducking into the locker room before kickoff to wish the team luck...
...stopped his habitual scribbling. "Writing was something I dreamed to do again in peacetime, something beautiful and pleasant that will only occur when one is allowed to live again. Jan Overbeek is a ghost, a shadow, a piece of printed paper with a fingerprint and a signature . . . 'I wish I were a flower, I might outlive this Autumn,' I poeted, and flushed this bit of written evidence down the toilet...
...quite know what kind of fight we can wage. "Surely." Tom Wicker wrote in Tuesday's Times, "Mr. Nixon does not wish the world to see protesting Americans clubbed in the streets with the White House as a backdrop." Why would Nixon not want a good bloody knock-some-sense-into-their-dirty-heads streetlight to show the Viet Cong and the world that Nixon is in the driver's seat? And why should he be afraid of further alienating the anti-war movement? The fact that we have to beg for a parade permit after four years of this...
...because the war and the things it symbolizes have warped our lives, because there is almost nothing for us to do but march. We may hate the violence if it comes: we may stand by disapprovingly while others charge the troops and attack the Orwellian Justice Department: we may wish the Weathermen spent more time listening to Dylan. We may even formally dissociate ourselves from the violence; we may do that with the utmost sincerity...
...insult anytime I please. buddy boy. I wish you'd try to stop me," said the cameraman as he forces the Weatherman to back up to the stairs leading away from the room, matching him step for step...