Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Tito was about to get a wish. The U.S. ambassador was returning to Belgrade with something the Marshal had asked for: a genuine Chicago typewriter (Tommy...
Readers may wish for a literary Mrs. Timson who would stop novels of this kind from coming into the world...
...each year by unknown hopefuls who just know they can draw, Collier's finds only three good enough to buy.) Said mustached, soft-spoken Gurney Williams, 42: "The other day I found myself staring at the millionth cartoon submitted to me since I became humor editor here. I wish it could have been fresh and original. Instead, it showed several ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. Two others stood nearby. Said one to the other: 'Where is everybody?' " Having seen at least 650 switches on this ancient since 1937, he shuddered...
...folksy little essay is hard to surpass as an example of the oversimplification that passes for psychology among so many economists and political scientists. It is an impeccable discussion of the motivation of the donkey, but used in reference to human beings it applies only to those who literally wish to make jackasses of themselves...
Like to travel? Is College giving you that jaded, wish-I-were-back-in-pinks feeling? Is your Gov section man an ex-corporal who's unduly prejudiced and rank-conscious? This...