Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer to the Molly McGuires as "a band of Pennsylvania miners who assassinated fellow workers and bosses alike." I wish to advise that as a student of their history and direct descendant of the county delegate of Schuylkill County, at no time did I ever come across any incident of violence attributable to the Molly McGuires where they were known to have assassinated a fellow worker or boss to gain better pay and working conditions per se. Rather, the individuals who were slain had the misfortune at the time to be of Dutch, Welsh, and/or English descent and fell prey...
Although one could wish that the authority of the United Nations were indeed a reality, from Tel Aviv the convolutions of the General Assembly look like a bad farce which suffers from delusions of grandeur. It seems fantastic that the United Nations can first ignite a house-fire by withdrawing the only peace-keeping force in the area, and then proclaim itself the only fire-engine on the block when the flames threaten the world community...
...student who had borrowed $4000 and who obtained a job paying, say $15,000 the year after he graduated might wish to avoid a 40 year commitment that would take a substantial portion of his income each year; he could elect to repay at once the entire $4000 plus six per cent interest...
...keeping with the educational ecumenism of the day, more and more U.S. divinity schools are abandoning their cloistered solitude for the richer dialogue available at large universities. Latest illustrations of the trend: the faculty of Woodstock College, a Jesuit seminary in Maryland, voiced the wish to affiliate with the Yale University Divinity School and move to New Haven, subject to approval by Rome; and the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, an interdenominational institution, decided to join hands with the University of Rochester. In both cases, a student-faculty exchange would occur; in each, the smaller school would retain its separate identity...
...more second-quarter and half-year sales and earnings were reported last week, many a corporate executive might wish that stockholders would believe the figures did not really count. Though hopes were high that the chart lines would soon be moving up, the news in the latest batch of reports was largely negative. Profits had been caught between higher labor and material costs and lower consumer demand. The Wall Street Journal, surveying earnings of 528 companies, found that their aftertax profit for the second quarter was 8.1% lower than last year's. In a similar survey of 500 corporations...