Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While big John Lewis and the soft-coal operators jousted in a cloud of cigar smoke, the nation's soft-coal miners went to the polls. They voted, under the Smith-Connally Act, on what John Lewis disdainfully called a trick question: "Do you wish to permit an interruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dispute?" Their answer: yes, 208,797; no, 25,158. John Lewis could now legally shut down the mines...
...expectations for the future. In spite of many shortcomings America is a new country where past achievements are only a starting point for the future. You will be welcome in America, for you too have taken your chance and embarked on a great adventure. Americans admire courage. They will wish you good luck and happiness in your new life in the new world...
...Those who wish to stay will be asked to settle somewhere east of the Rockies, "as evidence of their desire to be good Canadians...
...Having chosen to fight, we had then, and have now, no final means of winning battles except through the valor of the Marine or Army soldier who, with rifle and grenades, storms enemy positions, takes them and holds them. There is no short cut or easy way. I wish there were...
Medical men delicately suggest that public education and perhaps new legislation is needed. Except in a few states, a citizen who would like to leave his body to science now has no real power to enforce his wish. A body cannot legally be willed; its disposal is up to relatives. In Britain, courts usually give the next-of-kin his way; in the U.S., courts often respect the deceased's wishes. Best a man can do is leave a note that he wants a medical school to have his body, hope that no sentimental relative will object when...