Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did "out of control" mean? There were many possibilities. Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, described some: "I certainly . . . want to see rigid federal control of what is done in this area [atomic research]. I certainly do not wish to think that some group of [atomic] experimenters might set up a laboratory half a mile from my home and family and . . . poison the neighborhood, or possibly blow it up. . . .I say we are faced with a very difficult thing to control . . . and I would make a very strong commission to do it." Bush...
...wish to thank TIME [Sept. 24] for taking an interest in my fight against E. H. Crump and his political machine...
Added the President: "I am communicating directly with the British Government in an effort to have the doors of Palestine opened to such of these displaced persons as wish to go there." There was good reason to suppose that the President had spoken to Prime Minister Attlee as emphatically as he had to General Eisenhower-but no suggestion that the U.S. was prepared to take any real responsibility for Palestine...
...questions, the worry questions, are questions of attitudes and objectives. . . . What kind of a world do we really wish to live in? What sort of an effort are we ready to make to realize it? . . . How can we help each other to make our world a free world...
...will stop raining tomorrow, for the World Series begins and all the writing talent of the College will wish to dock to the opening of the SERVICE NEWS fall competition without getting wet Beer, in addition, should not be drunk in wet weather, for the Med School students claim it brings ulcers. And ulcers keep you from drinking beer...