Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing beneath the stern stone faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt looming from South Dakota's Mt. Rushmore, Wendell Willkie last week asked his fellow U.S. citizens some pregnant questions: "Are you engaged in delusive and wish ful thinking that the war will end shortly, when we have not yet even entered Eu rope and have reconquered only one of the multitude of islands in the South Pacific? "Are you one of those who understands the destructive forces of inflation, yet joins pressure groups whose demands, if met, mean inflation inevitably? "Are you one of those...
...theater of German naval operations. Routes of convoys were plotted there, location of submarine packs picked out and corresponding orders given for attack. Radio in code and clear was flashed out constantly: on Christmas Eve last year Doenitz himself addressed his U-boat crews all over the world to wish them Merry Christmas and good hunting...
...tells the sometimes drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair-sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward in the average man's shoes...
Commented Hearst's Los Angeles competitor, the Times, in a birthday editorial : "... Even those who have not always agreed with him can wish him well at this milestone in a career which will be long remembered...
Adams House was fourth with eight, but the other Houses dropped considerably below that mark; Eliot with four, and Kirkland and Dunster turning in two each. Those who wish to make their own appointments for blood donation may call the Cambridge Chapter at ELIOT...