Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing: Germans! .. [and] Germans themselves have no future." Nor did Hitler look deeply into the final cataclysmic scene of his beloved Götterdämmerung, for which Wagner himself had written the program note: "The will that wanted to shape an entire world according to its wish can finally attain nothing more satisfactory than . . . annihilation...
...paratrooper at Fort Benning said to Bernstein, "I wish to hell there was some other way of getting up here." "Don't you like to jump?" Bernstein asked. "I love to jump. I just don't like these damned airplanes." "I'm disappointed," said another after his third jump. "You just come up and fall out. You don't have to do a thing. A roller coaster is worse...
...establishment of the University Professorships, aimed at the accomplishment of the third goal of the Conant policies, inter-departmental unity and cooperation. Under this system, leading men in the University are given roving professorships, under which they are permitted to give any courses and undertake any research they wish...
...clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented their junior partner with a silver salver in recognition of an undeniable increase in dividends "and suggested that he give up his many charities." Even his "dearest Caroline," a devout Calvinist, began to wish ardently that her Robert would walk closer to "the straight and narrow way of God." Prairie Paradise. When, after discouraging years in England, Robert Owen's eye lit on an advertisement in the London Times offering a town for sale, he "saw, beyond the rolling seas, the promise...
...Francisco conference fails, as Sorokin thinks it will, he predicts that America will become a great, imperialistic empire. "And I wish every success to such an attempt of the United States." declared the explosive sociologist, "because it is better for the United States to be imperialistic than for any other country in the world...