Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bioff: "I didn't know about that. I wish I had. I could have used that...
...social ball rolling with a lavish luncheon which moved on, course by relentless course, until 20 toasts had been offered and the clock stood at 3:30 p.m. By week's end Cordell Hull stood thoroughly in awe of Russian hospitality, reportedly groaned to a colleague: "I wish to preserve my strength for this highly important work we have come here to do with our Russian and British friends...
Probably the most famous living Negro, Paul Leroy Robeson was born 45 years ago in Princeton, NJ. His father, a run away slave in his youth, was a deeply respected, deep-voiced Presbyterian minister ("When people talk about my voice," say Robeson, "I wish they could have heard my father preach"). Entering Rutgers on a scholarship, Paul wound up in Phi Beta Kappa and a four-letter man. In football he was twice chosen by Walter Camp as All-America end-"the greatest defensive end," said Camp, "that ever trod the gridiron...
...wish to nominate General Josip Brozovich, leader of the Partisan Yugoslavs whom the Spaniards in their revolution named "Tito...
...decision the most "momentous" in the Society's 91-year history. Their reasons: "If the professionally-minded engineer is not prepared to bargain collectively through representatives of his own choosing, collective bargaining will be done for him by representatives selected by an organization with which he may not wish to be identified." A.S.C.E.'s tall, courtly President Ezra Bailey Whitman (Whitman, Requardt & Smith) insisted on leaving out the word "union," substituting the words "bargaining group." But in effect, the engineers were setting up their own counterunion...