Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else." White, more assertive as a victor than as a campaigner, declared: "No man or woman is going to tear this city apart with hate or bigotry or false promises." Mrs. Hicks, more gracious in defeat than in combat, appeared with White on election night to congratulate him and wish him well...
...occasion was certainly right for a party, and the trappings were all that anyone would wish: the sweep of Red Square, an entertainment cast of thousands, the backdrop of the Kremlin and, later, the elegant Palace of Congresses as a banquet hall for 2,000 guests. But the hosts seemed downright edgy, as if expecting one of the guests to swing from a chandelier or pour champagne on someone's head. Indeed, some of the partygoers at last week's celebration of the Soviet Union's 50th anniversary figuratively jangled a few chandeliers and threw a goodly...
...Viet Cong for releasing them. Jackson, dressed in shorts and sports shirt, said woodenly: "The National Liberation Front made the decision to release me in response to the colored Negro American struggle for peace in the U.S." Pitzer said that "I have not been physically tortured or beaten. I wish to thank the Front for their lenient policy." Though neither sergeant hinted at a condemnation or repudiation of the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam, the circumstances inevitably raised echoes of Korea and brainwashing. In Saigon, the U.S. promptly released a report of a Viet Cong defector who said that...
Every Girl Wants One. The next Sunday, both papers offered a second round of revelations. The Times provided a highly detailed, perceptively written account of how Philby got started in espionage. The Observer ran some sentimental recollections of Eleanor's-just the thing to make every girl wish she had a spy for a husband. "If your work demands the most tireless watchfulness, you tend to compensate by the intensity of your sex-based relationships," wrote Eleanor. "Our marriage was perfect in every way." In a separate article entitled, "The Spy We Took In from the Cold," the Observer...
...strings, he has achieved a limpid texture that lets the inner architecture of the music shine through. His interpretations, though vigorous and often intense, do not often reflect great emotional involvement-a trait that frustrates some members of the audience and orchestra. "Sometimes," sighs one of his musicians, "we wish he'd let himself go more...