Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Guard wish to express our sincere appreciation for your efforts in uncovering certain unlicensed radio equipment in Chatham last Sunday afternoon...
Miss Williams and her assistants wish they could accept all the bids they get to spend vacations with club officers everywhere from Maine to Southern California-and just after Pearl Harbor a chairman of the Missouri Women's Clubs jokingly invited the Club Bureau's entire staff to share their bomb shelter in Marvel Cave. In fact, the national offices of most of the women's clubs have given the Bureau so much personal advice and practical encouragement that by now Miss Williams is not sure always whether her procedures grew out of her own thinking...
Still, Editor Powell does not pity himself. "We got off with our lives at any rate," he philosophizes. "I wish I could say the same for some of the Chinese." (Once he counted 85 blows on a Chinese prisoner who was clubbed to death.) Some day he hopes to go back and "put out the next edition." Meantime, he urged in a weak voice that nevertheless strikes fire, "the thing to do is to win the war. There are 1,500 American prisoners of war in Shanghai. They're waiting for us to set them free...
...acquired to a remarkably subtle degree. The trained patient can be blindfolded and still recognize with his prosthesis (sawbone lingo for artificial arm) the slightest difference in the size of objects, as well as variation in consistency, and can also gauge the force with which he may wish to grasp an object...
...eternally baffling question for music critics (who, all popular prejudices aside, really like music and wish it well) is where to find the bridge between what is true and great in sound combinations and what is true and great in a man's life. It would probably be easier and more pleasant to dispense with the critics altogether and let music work out its own future with the public, but making value judgments about what we like seems to be an inevitable human trait. (The more we like a thing, the more greatness we are led to claim...