Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conditioned Nightmare [TIME, Dec. 24], is the lightly touched point that Author Miller left Europe as soon as the going grew hard in 1940. As he had been settled in Paris since ten years "to study vice," while he "worked at panhandling and slept on park benches," we wish only that he had stayed in Europe for five years more...
...hope of "cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States," the late Lady Julia Henry in 1930 created the fund to provide five Fellowships for American citizens and the same number for British exchange students who wish to study at Harvard or Yale...
...your convenience, I am printing a subscription form below. If you wish, you can clip it, fill it out, and send it in to TIME. I hope you will...
They were bewildered by the feverish surge of events which had snatched them up: "I didn't want the war in the first place ... I wish there was some way that war could be avoided and that peace would be everlasting in the world...
...Great Divorce, Author Lewis, who teaches medieval literature at Oxford, takes himself and a load of jostling, quarreling passengers from a twilit, drizzly city of endless streets to a fresh meadow at the foot of a cloudy mountain range. "The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world," Lewis warns. But the grey city, he realizes, was Hell; he and his bus-mates are spirits on an excursion. Damnation is not final; they may stay in Heaven if they choose...