Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French girl complained: "I do not know why all Americans think that all French girls will make love to anybody. I think Americans can be nice if they don't drink. But when they are drunk they are beasts. For me they have worn out their liberation. I wish they would go home...
Common men could wish that more of such Attlee philosophy had leavened the talk...
...operator grasped the passenger's hand and spoke for plain men everywhere: "I wish your conference all the successes, sir, for feeding all those people...
...chapter called Getting Along with Russia, Scott offers some do's and don'ts whereby Americans may spare the easily abraded Russian skin. Americans who are reasonably sure that Russian policy is seldom motivated by hurt feelings and reasonably fed up with Soviet truculence may wish that Author Scott would write a similar book of etiquette for Russians...
...hall called Stuyvesant Casino on Manhattan's tawdry Lower East Side, Bunk and his six fellow jazzmen from New Orleans gave out with rocking hymns like When the Saints Go Marching In, drum-heavy parade music like High Society and Maryland, My Maryland, and the quick-paced I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate ("she shakes like jelly on a plate"). Their tunes were old; their playing was steady beat, banjo-plunking, authentic New Orleans-and meant to dance to. Bunk and his bandmen couldn't understand why almost no one got up to dance...