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Word: wishfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need politicians who advocate abortion rights and public funding of abortions for all women, not just rape victims. No woman should be forced to have a child because she could not prove she was the victim of rape. No woman should be punished for the simple wish to protect the privacy of her own body--a privacy violated by rape, incestuous rape, and the restriction of abortion...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: The Changing Rhetoric of Rape | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...says he was won over by the animals. "I wish the whole world could see the elephants the way I saw them," Gup says. "Then they would understand that ivory is not jade; it's not a mineral. It's the product of a magnificent animal that has suffered tremendously so that people can wear something gleaming around their necks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Oct 16 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...voice is phenomenal, her stage presence at once imposing and inviting. Pfeiffer gives to Suzie Diamond such a joyous, sultry energy that all who listen feel the spirit of the music surround and lift them. They actually believe and wish all those old torch songs to be true. Suzie's version of "Machine' Whoopee" on top of Jack's piano is straight out of Hollywood history and perfectly executed...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...common anti-Semitic sentiment is that a network of powerfully placed Jews conspires to control the world. At their worst, members of fraternities such as Sigma Alpha Mu seem to wish that such a network existed so they could take advantage...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Life Isn't a Kosher Deli | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...would like to tell them that I live their deep pain and their human suffering concerning their beloved ones, and I appreciate their feelings. I wish I had the realistic means to end this human tragedy. I am working on educating the whole nation against this method, and I wish that I could influence the people involved. I can confirm that I have done a great deal of work in this direction, but I have come across many closed paths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah: Voice Of the Hizballah | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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