Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking of this subject dear to the heart of all, Bob Lang had some interesting things to say about common sense the other day--and after all these weeks of germination and cultivation of this priceless possession. Gordon Koppert and Chris Kottoff with their usual alertness wish it known that whatever Bob said has only limited application...
...British bad, Boxer okay, girl friend okay," they told Emily. But Emily remained her unpredictable self. She gave Jap officials English lessons in return for food, even went to dinner with them ("People [in New York] raise their eyebrows at this attitude, but nobody in occupied territory would. I wish you could have a month of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong"). Once she got tipsy, slapped the Jap Chief of Intelligence in the face. He came to see her the day before she was repatriated, slapped her back. "I thought we had better get evened up," he said...
...wish," concludes Emily, "to say good-naturedly that I have suffered a lot, and I often wonder in what cause." But unabashed Emily, now living in New York with her daughter, was making postwar plans to return to Major Boxer, who, she reports, plans to marry her as soon as he wins freedom from: 1) a Jap prison camp; 2) his wife...
...wish I had the space to sketch the backgrounds of some of the other editors and writers who have joined us in recent months. But perhaps these examples will serve to show you the kind of newsmen we are trying to add to TIME'S staff in these days when it is so much harder to gather the news and make sure it all adds up to a true picture of world events...
...Mark W. Clark, trim, white-haired, publicity-wise wife of Lieut. General Mark Clark, expressed a wish to be "even a honky-tonk dancer" as a sure-fire passport for overseas service, sighed: "But I haven't got glamor...