Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having read your letter published today [TIME, Nov. 12] to us subscribers, I certainly do want to join you in every good wish to Jim Linen in his new job. I also want to extend congratulations to TIME for regaining the services of one of the ablest men I have ever known-and one of the nicest...
Rupture. A day later Tokyo virtually admitted (in another code) that all negotiations were at an end: "Well, you two Ambassadors have exerted superhuman efforts . . . but the negotiations will be de facto ruptured. This is inevitable. However, I do not wish you to give the impression that the negotiations are broken off. Merely say to them [i.e., Roosevelt & Hull] that you are awaiting instructions. . . . Say that we have always demonstrated a long-suffering and conciliatory attitude...
...seek to raise the standard of life of our people. We can only do so by trading with the rest of the world, and as good traders we wish to have prosperous customers. . . . We, like you, believe in an expansive economy. ... You will see us embarking on projects of nationalization. . . . You, it may be, will continue in your more individualistic methods. It is more important that we should understand each other and other nations whose institutions differ from...
...beachhead in the battle for peace. . . .' But ... it is a vital beachhead. ... Its machinery and powers are limited. . . . But it is flexible. It can grow. ... Do not sell the United Nations Organization short. Do not undermine what you have in an academic discussion of what you wish...
Well aware that they are launching a biographical buzz bomb, which may have serious repercussions in the autograph market, Author Smith & Others make haste to deny that their book is an attack on Shelley. They simply wish to show that "romantic, Pagan Shelley," whom they refer to as "the pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift," never degenerated into respectability; that he was "a whirlwind of devastation, upsetting the life of nearly everyone with whom he came into contact and leaving an appalling trail of acrimonious litigation, financial chaos, childbirth and death, double suicide and disaster behind...