Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a paragraph on Joseph Hicswa [TIME, May 20]. I wish to bring to your attention one sentence with which I can't agree...
Last week, earnest Ed found the Byrnes stand-in one whirl too many. In a letter to the President, he announced his wish to retire from history, and declared (a trifle dizzily, perhaps) that the job of organizing the U.N. was completed. After a decent interval for surprise and protest, the President accepted his resignation, and began casting around for a successor. Unfortunately, good stand-ins were as scarce in Washington as stars...
Britain's Dick Burton was invited to the U.S. to see whether British golfers could do any better. Burton, a lanky, genial, blue-eyed pro, started explaining as soon as he arrived in the U.S. Said he: "I wish to deny the stories credited...
Adolf Hitler had always shouted (and his Germans had noisily agreed) that the Treaty of Versailles must be torn to shreds. He had his wish...
...convinced that no other place could be better or more appropriate, nor would the boys themselves wish their bodies to be moved...