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Word: wishfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Serb elements in Yugoslavia, particularly the Partisans, whom they accuse of plundering the people of Yugoslavia. But poverty-stricken, oppressed Balkan peasants, traditionally pro-Russian, are attracted by slogans, long associated with Moscow, such as "Land to the Landless," "Higher Wages," and "People's Governments." Many Yugoslavs wish their Government would negotiate with the Partisans, through Moscow, to create a unified strategy and perhaps a unified command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Balkan Red | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...whomer"). Her extracurricular "honors" have piled up like ticker tape. She was "Queen" of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "Queen" of Manhattan's famed Seventh Regiment, is "Sweetheart" of more Army camps than she can remember. At Manhattan's Butlers' Ball she was named "The Girl We Wish Would Come to Dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: DYNAMIC DINAH | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Said Farmer Howard Hancock, who has a prosperous 740-acre stock farm on Hurricane Creek near Nashville, Tenn.: "There's more men on this farm today than ever I've seen here. I wish I could put'em all to work." The men were U.S. soldiers on maneuvers, and they worked hard because, unlike the men on last year's maneuvers, they knew they would soon face the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army And Navy - Men at Work | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...persons who wish to have their telephone numbers printed in the Crimson Telephone Directory should leave them at the CRIMSON office at 14 Plympton St sometime this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telephone Directory | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...workers who watched the ceremony cried Speech! Someone pressed a portable microphone into the President's hands. Said he: "I am very much inspired by what I have seen, and I wish that every man, woman and child in these United States could have been here today to see the launching and realize its importance in winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Story of a Trip | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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