Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each of the strike ballots, NLRB asked the employes: "Do you wish to permit an interruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dispute?" Seventy-one percent voted...
Thanks. In Sikeston, Mo., the Standard reprinted a New Mexico widow's card of thanks: "I wish to thank all who so kindly assisted in any way in the death of my dear husband...
Lieut. Barnett began to wish the trip were over. He hoped the sick dogs were all right. They had schistosomiasis, a tropical disease the Army needed to know more about. He had to deliver them to Walter Reed Hospital fast-the disease diminished in a temperate climate. As things were, it would be a social as well as a military pleasure to be rid of them...
...year-old buddy, Arthur Davidowicz, did not vibrate so alarmingly. He looked wistfully blank at times, at times just old and beaten. "I wish the policeman would've shot me," he said, "I'd of been better...
...forte was pictorial storytelling. One of the best examples in the Met's show is The Breakdown, a jovial boys-in-the-back-room scene, which provoked an arch rebuke from the New York Mirror, a weekly, of June 13, 1835: "We might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged in whittling their...