Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys who gave their lives on Saipan did not give them while sleeping or, as you say, freezing in their foxholes. We know that our division is one of the best fighting units in this area and wish to have it proven otherwise. We feel that someone should set the public right on this slur to our fighting ability...
...nine pounds under his best weight [186-188 Ibs.]. He took off this weight in the spring. He was getting a little too heavy and we had him reduce. . . ." Now, proud of his flat stomach, the President doesn't want to get that bulge back. "Frankly, I wish he'd put on a few pounds. . . . Ever hear of a man who recovered his flat tummy and got proud...
TIME (Sept. 18) has the right word, but fails to draw the logical inference. Tom Dewey is indeed carrying on his campaign like a "prosecutor," with just the technique that was his own as prosecuting attorney. One might wish a campaign for the Presidency to be conducted on a higher level. Two recent examples of deplorable sharp practice: 1) the attempt to exploit politically the natural desire of parents and wives to have our soldiers brought home as soon as possible ; 2) spreading confusion and arousing controversy by the nomination of General MacArthur for supreme command in the Pacific...
...wound Chairman Morton and his convocation of historical illiterates deeply to learn this, but Jesus Christ was born into one of our more infamous dictatorships -much as we could wish that He had been born to the credit of a democracy...
Irvin S. (for Shrewsbury) Cobb, famed American humorist, whose last touch of humor-revealed after his death last March-was a request for a simple, "cheerful" funeral with his ashes to be buried under a dogwood tree in his hometown of Paducah, Ky., had his wish granted in every detail but one: when the dogwood tree was planted over the grave, his desire that there be "no long faces and no show of grief" went unobserved...