Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rules of military courtesy apply--- rank takes precedence. But because military courtesy includes deference to women, and because a senior's wish is an implied command, if a senior male officer indicates he prefers courtesy to women above the strict military usage, the junior female should act accordingly without any hesitation or embarrassing counter-deference...
...clarification of the recent alter- ations in Selective Service procedure, Washington announced recently that men who enter the armed services through the draft will definitely have an opportunity to indicate their preference for the branch of the services that they wish to enter...
...Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia, gave an official version of Anglo-Russian relations. He emphasized in a speech broadcast to Europe that Germany was again "flaunting the Red peril." He said that there was a "deepseated wish, or more, a determination to work with the Russians in peace and in the war" that German propagandists could not shake. "Let them reflect for a moment," he said, "upon the common man in Britain and Russia and China, on his way of life ... a spontaneous revolt against anything for which the Fascists stand...
...wish their numbers to be included in this list should fill out cards at the Crimson Business Office at 14 Plympton Street before February 19. Only new numbers will be included, and all cards must be filled out before the deadline...
...expect to be called away from College into the armed services on very short notice, will have to be especially careful in the matter of cuts, according to the announcement of the new policy, which warned men in such circumstances that, "those who wish to avail themselves of the privilege of final credit on the basis of cumulative grades . . . will find themselves severely handicapped if they have been careless about attendance...