Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behalf of the staff of the Harvard Independent, I wish to express my strongest displeasure with the gratuitous and obnoxious Reporter's Notebook entry which ran in your publication last Saturday. Not only do such digs read as the product of a self-important but grossly insecure Crimson editorial staff, they also do great damage to the ostensibly communal society of campus publications...
...have never made a personal remark against anyone in this council," Sullivan said in response. "I think those remarks were inappropriate in the City Council and I wish they were not made. That's all I have to say," he said...
...Changing Picture and Lift-the-Flap Book." Thanks to Kareen Taylerson's ingenious designs, young readers can move a lever and create a banquet, make Jacob Marley materialize out of the air and, finally, reprieve Ebenezer Scrooge. But Charles Dickens' famous ending is unillustrated -- and rightly so. Its wish is worth a thousand pictures: "It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well. May that be said...
Breaking his silence, the still unapprehended Honasan told TIME during a brief phone call, "We do not wish to spurn our friendship with the American people. But I believe it is morally wrong for Ambassador Platt to take sides because it will mean more bloodshed." Saving democracy may be its own reward, but for the U.S., this rescue could have long-term costs. Now that Washington has used force to prop up the Aquino regime, will anything less do the next time a threat arises...
...trailed by eight fellow members of the Civic Forum, proceeded to a second-floor conference room in the cream stucco building. Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec opened the talks with a seven-minute statement outlining the government's concessions. In return, Adamec said, "please terminate your strikes. This is my wish and my plea." Havel was in no mood to be conciliatory. For the next 18 minutes, he listed the Civic Forum's demands, all of which, he said, must...