Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish our Congressmen could live on British Army rations for a month, these rations which all the Britons say guiltily are so much better than their families get at home. I wish they could feel the embarrassment I feel when I read in the papers of the delays on action on the British Loan-and the apathetic attitude toward the world food situation. I believe they would feel, as I regretfully admit I feel, a sense of shame at being an American...
...bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best defense lawyers could lift his pessimism. "I wish you wouldn't torture me with rhetoric," Mihailovich begged the court. "I am a soldier too weary to remember." Time & again all that he could say was "I don't know" or "I'm not sure...
...willful, half-barbaric King yearns to improve himself and his backward country-but without once relaxing his regal prerogatives. Nor does he wish to accept too much help from someone who is not only a foreigner but also a lowly woman. To hold and secure her job, Anna has to perform daily miracles of common sense, dignity, humor, forbearance and strength of character. As played by Irene Dunne and Britain's Rex Harrison (in his first Hollywood movie), the clash of these two kinetic personalities should be more fun for an adult audience than the standard maneuverings toward...
...until the fall term) as well as Dudley, college center for commuting students, will be managed by a House athletic secretary and an assistant secretary. Samborski announced that a supervisor would be on hand at Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock on June 24 to assist all men who wish to enter the summer program...
...synchronized spotlights. First one asks something, then the other chimes in, keeping things going. You gang up on one guy, firing questions at him as fast as you can. . . . Some people don't come well-prepared, but by the time the two-hour discussion is over, they wish to hell they...