Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motor. 'See you in Honolulu sometime.' Then he climbed down and stood for a few seconds with his head hanging in that quizzical way of his, his eyes looking up. Suddenly he clambered up on the wing again and shouted through the wind, 'Gee, John, I wish we could sit down and talk for a long time about all this...
Animals don't get loose without some malicious spirit to aid and abet them, and boojums are the most malevolent of all spirits as anyone who has hunted for snarks can tell you. We know that the boojums feel slighted by your article, and wish you would apologize to them...
...proud of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives and in the Senate when, a few days ago, they announced a policy with respect to this measure, which was to go along and to give the Executive the authority for which he asked. I wish that it might have been followed in the House...
...they scarcely knew what to make of him. Picked up in a boat after the British destroyer he was on had been sunk off Tobruk, the first thing he did after landing was to demand an interview with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The Germans, astounded by this "rather queer wish by the prisoner," turned it down...
When Condè Nast died (TiME, Sept. 28), his last wish was to name his successor. Last week Condè Nast Publications' board of directors gladly confirmed his choice: 42-year-old Iva Sergei Voidato Patcèvitch, Nast's executive assistant since 1928. Conde Nast editors remain unchanged...