Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Padre's Hour sometimes includes a whole company, but the ideal is the informal (they can smoke if they want), clublike meeting of a platoon, 20-25 men. Chaplains usually start with a 15-minute address on any topic they wish, then hold a 45-minute question-&-answer session. The Hour is apt to be quite as instructive for the padres as for their men. Many chaplains have been joggled by such questions as: "How can you justify the Church's ownership of slum property?" Many have been startled by posers like "Why is God always represented...
...book is also looking for cartoonists. From sketches which float around the class rooms, there seems to be a goodly number of officers with ability. Any of them who wish to be considered for sketching for the Yearbook should submit copies of their work to any members of the staff or their class representatives...
...Dutch civilians were stolidly restrained. "They were as mad as hell. I have seen some of those fellows just raging mad. They just sit at home and wish that they could get going, but then they feel, 'What the hell? We can't do anything.' You are just absolutely bound." The Dutchmen were biding their time...
...civilians who wish to enter the V-12 program, but are not enlisted in V-1, V-5 or V-7, the qualifications are as follows; male citizen of the United States, morally, and physically fit, with minimum visual acuity of 18/20 unmarried and agree to remain so until commissioned, and evidence potential officer qualifications, including appearance and scholarship records...
...liberation: "One of the main curses Hitler has brought on us is that by trying to unify Europe in the wrong way, he has brought forth such a recrudescence of nationalistic, chauvinistic feeling that the clock of European evolution has been put back for at least 50 years. . . . The wish-dream of the martyrized Continent is for a super-Versailles...