Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia. "The impression I brought back from the Crimea is that Marshal Stalin and the other Soviet leaders wish to live in honorable friendship and democracy with the western democracies. . . . Terrible indeed would be the fortunes of mankind if some awful schism arose between the western democracies and the Russian people...
...mindful of the future of our 450,000,000 people and conscious of standing at the bar of history, would wish to plunge the country into a civil war. The Government has shown its readiness and is always ready to confer with the Communists to bring about a real and lasting settlement with them...
...Army. Said the Prime Minister: "To all of you who have husbands or sons, brothers or friends in the Canadian forces in Germany or Italy, I wish to give the most positive assurance that our Army is receiving the fullest support in arms, munitions and reinforcements...
...sons. Unhappily . . . I am married and am much too old for you anyway. My only child is a daughter of 14. She lives in, of all places, Amherst. No doubt the boys who want to marry her will never go to the trouble of writing me. ... I wish I had a couple of sons . . . but it's much too late to do anything about...
...wish. When he discarded humble Sibyl Vane (Angela Lansbury) and she killed herself, the mouth of the portrait warped in cruelty. He locked it away, where only he could see it. As the years passed, and he lost himself in every depth, of vice the screen dare hint at, he watched the portrait's gradual and fantastic corruption.* He saw how blood sprang out on the right hand when at length he committed murder...