Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their happy exit. It wouldn't be so hard to take if they wouldn't whistle and sing while packing; they seem to forget that we are sensitive human beings and must stick around for another two months. However, they've been damn swell to us and we wish them the best of luck...
...wish I had space to sketch the backgrounds of some of the other editors and writers who have joined us in the year just past-to merge their fresh-to-TIME but long experience talents with those of our 46 other editors. But perhaps these examples will serve to show you the kind of newsmen we are adding to TIME'S staff in these days when the news is so hard to get and check and make clear...
...wish to correct the statement about "name coaches" that have gone into the services (TIME, Sept. 20). . . . Hunk Anderson is not the football coach at the University of Iowa. He is the line coach of the Chicago Bears...
...British, and presumably Robert Murphy or his successor as Civil Affairs Adviser to General Eisenhower will sit for the U.S. As War and the Working Class understands it, the Commission will not only supervise the carrying out of the Italian armistice but discuss terms for other satellites who may wish to quit. At Russia's request a representative of the French National Committee will be asked to join. It will be the first time since the war began that official Russians, Britons, Americans have met in a permanent war policy committee...
...confession, deaf-mute penitents are given a printed list of common sins, mark those they wish to confess, hand the paper to the priest. He writes the penance and instructions on the paper, then returns it. Others who wish to see him outside the confessional go to the rectory parlor and "whisper" their problems. A mute "whispers" by shielding his hand inside his partly opened coat as he signs. A woman makes signs behind her purse...