Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to point out that the President informed us in 1940 that he would run for a Fourth Term. He said then that he would accept the nomination for "a third and last term," i.e., third and fourth...
...coming to London. He gave De Gaulle and the French Empire much credit for tangible contributions to Allied victory, said that these services entitled the De Gaulle Government to "the fourth place in the Grand Alliance" against Hitler. And the Prime Minister painstakingly explained the reservations: "We do not wish to commit ourselves . . . without more knowledge than we now possess of the situation in the interior of France...
Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, Pittsburgh's rugged redhead who won the Congressional Medal of Honor near Altavilla (TIME, March 20), began a 90-day tour of U.S. Army camps, after making a confession: "Being a hero is the bunk. I wish I was going across...
...Samuel Hoare. "It is appalling that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob, after being Air Minister, Secretary for India, Foreign Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, should have been, installed at last in Madrid as the spokesman of the democracies. . . . No need to wish to harm him. He is what Britain made him. His proper job now is to be a gossip correspondent for a smart newspaper...
...wish that I could hide inside...