Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When we hear "Dark Eyes," well, we can dream... can't we? When we hear "As Time Goes By"... Well, we wish it would.... Especially up to August 27th. When "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" is played..."Why Mention Heaven" at a time like this?... Incidentally, drop your family and friends a note as they would probably like to hear the program...
...squeeze play occurred in the last war, but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver (to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap importers-and their bagless customers-wish they had another Baruch...
...many students who are leaving College for the service at this time," Dean Hanford said, "I wish to express our appreciation for the determination and good sense which they have shown in meeting the uncertain conditions of the past year, and for the good state of morale that has been maintained...
Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe." King George VI of England suggested that the day of defeat was past and gone. "The debt of Dunkirk is repaid," he said. Joseph Stalin, congratulating Roosevelt and Churchill, said: "I wish you further successes," and Pravda, in Moscow, talked as if those successes would be accomplished very soon: "The time is approaching when jointly with the armies of our allies we shall break the backbone of the Fascist beast...
...unify Europe by force, any kind of unification must be wrong. But FORTUNE warns that if the old European state system is revived, Europe, once the center of Christian culture and world power, is "in danger of receding into its own glorious past." FORTUNE thinks the U.S. should wish Europe a brighter future, figures that European unification would 1) uphold Christendom; 2) eliminate some causes of war and thus prolong peace. The article shows how this unification can grow naturally from steps to be taken during the war. Specific goals: 1) A European Council of all continental members...