Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictators have thin skins. Last week Morinigo canceled all Paraguayan Government subscriptions to La Nation. Then, on the pretext that the Associated Press had "misquoted" him in La Nation, he suspended the A.P. in Paraguay. Democrats began to wish that Dictator Morinigo would stop trying so hard to be democratic...
...uncle's desk in search of important military information, and uses every means of whining, ingratiation and deceit at his young command to get the members of the family against one another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck's. Indeed it is hardly necessary for Emil to try to murder his young cousin (Joan Carroll) to convince everyone that he is, in fact, a symptom of a very ugly kind of social disease...
Almost ancient now is the proposal to keep a juke box in Cowie. A spot survey showed a 100 percent willingness to "chip in" in order to keep Cowie filled with the strains of swing that greeted us on that one day. Wish someone could start the ball rolling. . . hint...
...Milan. Headlines and acetous comments derided the ex-Duce as "delirious ... a Nero who fiddled all Italy into ashes," and his followers as "scum in an advanced state of decay." Explained Editor Monicelli: "We offer the complete text [of Mussolini's speech] to our readers with the wish that . . . the last remains of this tragic buffoonery . . . should be swept away...
Next day his photograph, distributed by A.P. wirephoto, was printed throughout the U.S., becoming a likely candidate for the 1944 Pulitzer Prize. But Cowan was far from happy. Editors and fellow reporters showered him with congratulations. Said Cowan: "I wish I hadn't been there...