Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself joined our staff in 1940, right after he finished World Without End, a history the New York Times called "the best book about the Balkans in a long time." At first he worked as a writer for FORTUNE, but after Yugoslavia was overrun by the Nazis his one wish was to get back to his own country as a TIME correspondent. Until last fall, the closest he could get was Britain, where he worked on the staff of our London office and kept in close touch with the Balkan underground (he is one big reason why TIME...
...Alberoni had built the biggest Spanish fleet since the Armada. "It is my aim," he wrote, "that the King should remain at peace with everyone, in order that one day he may be in a position to make war on those who may not wish to be his friends." Meanwhile Alberoni shipped a Spanish army against Austrian-held Sardinia and Sicily...
...intend to use phrases like 'fairly comfortable' and 'uncomfortable.' " Where another fore caster would rely on the standard "increasing cloudiness and warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers a daily post-mortem along the lines of "Uh huh, we told you it would rain yesterday, and it did," or "We said thunderstorms. Nothing much happened because a high-pressure area acted...
...wish I had room to tell you about all the others TIME & LIFE have mobilized for you Somewhere in England-about Wilmott Ragsdale, Sherry Mangan, Jacqueline Saix, Jeffrey Mark, Dennis Scanlan...
...more that Britain is not irrevocably wedded to King George of Greece. Said Churchill: "His Majesty's Government will give you all support. . . . The Nazi tyrant must be destroyed. . . . After this ... the Greek nation, free from foreign interference, will choose the form of democratic government under which they wish to live. The King is the servant of his people. I am sure he has no wish to force himself upon the Greek nation...