Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accept gift subscriptions for busy men or women who today more than ever would welcome TIME's help in following the news quickly and confidently. We do not feel we should refuse your gifts to some boy or girl whose war-born interest in the news you may wish to guide into intelligent channels. Most certainly we do not want to say "no" to any subscriber who wants to send TIME to someone in our armed forces overseas-for your gift of TIME may well prove his only quick and knowing source of news from home...
...doctors . . . forbade my indulging in any exercise whatever emotional in character. ... So I wish to explain to the people of this country, and to my fellows here, why I am quiet . . . in this great moment...
...Order 9346 says that all contracts with the U.S. Government must contain a clause forbidding discrimination against workers because of race, color, creed or national origin. Last month, Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren said the order was merely a "directive." Last week Franklin Roosevelt straightened out all misunderstandings: "I ... wish to make it perfectly clear that these provisions are mandatory...
...wish you could see the Tommies and the Yanks fighting side by side in the hills here, each unit depending on the other for the upholding of a flank. The last time I was up at the front, four days ago, I saw a little pile of dead by the roadside, six Tommies, four Yanks. There was an argument as to whether they should be buried together or apart. A U.S. colonel settled the thing with 'Hell, bury them together. They fought together and they died from the same shell...
...Italian Communists are concerned, the Pope can stay. In the new Italy, the Italian Communist Party agreed last week, Pius XII can remain "if the people wish it-we have nothing against him." But, added the Communists, "many of the Cardinals are Fascists." They also proposed to "separate the Church from the State, admitting the Church only to the exercise of religious functions from its seat in Rome...