Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What do they think we're here for? We are here to win the right to read what we wish, elect whom we wish, and to listen to political harangues if we wish. If we're to have those rights when the war ends-and we'd better-why can't we have them...
...wish you would take up seriously and strongly the matter of the utility [Government-designed] corset. There should be no false modesty about this very essential article...
...friends and interested parties I announce that I have dissolved the marriage contract which I had with Senhorita Silse Schenkel. At the same time I wish to announce my substitution in the heart of said Senhorita by Senhor Arnaldo Schmidt. I want to thank Senhorita Silse and her worthy parents for the consideration, they have always shown me, and to present in anticipation my wishes for much happiness to my friend, Arnaldo Schmidt, for whom I wish a promising future...
...note, however, was injected by one unfortunate Freshman, who saw his blind date walk off with a stag a few minutes before the end of the dance. He sorrowfully but vehemently declared, "I wish they would enforce the no-stag rule at a no-stag dance!" Most of the twelve, however, thought the bureau was "a pretty good gamble." Everybody had an enjoyable evening dancing to a variety of slow and fast numbers supplied by the Record Committee, and exploring the dark solitude of the Upper Common Room...
Experience. "The people of the United States will decide this fall whether they wish to turn over this 1944 job, this world-wide job, to inexperienced or immature hands, to those who opposed lend-lease and international cooperation . . . until they could read the polls of popular sentiment; or whether they wish to leave it to those who saw the danger from abroad, and met it headon...