Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes later he went into the office of his old friend, Les Biffle, the Secretary of the Senate. He shook hands with two amazed secretaries and dashed off another memo: "Les: I wish you were here. I tried to see the VP. He was gone. Now you're out. What do I do? H.S.T...
They were picked by the nominating committee of the Council; others who wish to run will have to file a petition with 25 names before 5 p.m. next Wednesday. All the nominated men have to do is to signify assent and hand in a brief biography and picture...
Although the Christian Democratic Party has many members in the industrial Ruhr area, where there is a more liberal attitude, it must maintain its strength in conservative Bavaria. This agricultural state has no need or wish for possible government interference in its economy and has threatened to withdraw from any strong state that may be established. In Bavaria the Christian Democrats are joined in a weak coalition with far-right Christian Socialists; any concession at Bonn by the C.D.'s would destroy the uneasy union, and lose for them this second most populous of the eleven West German States...
...Students at Goddard have no exams, and may choose the courses they wish to study and also the books they want to use. In their last two years at college, they work on individual projects and are bound by no requirements except that they must produce something original and of use to themselves...
...other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Lucas' face reddened. He shouted back: "I am not the first individual the Senator from Oregon has chastised . . . I wish the Senator from Oregon could hear what goes on in the cloakrooms about him sometimes...