Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind lady gave the U.S. a lesson in good manners last week. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from OCD. Said she: "By remaining I would only make it possible for those who wish to attack me, because of my beliefs, to attack an agency which I consider can prove its usefulness so completely to the people, that it should be free of attack, in order to render its maximum service." Also out of OCD went Dancer Mayris Chancy, Mrs. Roosevelt's beleaguered proteg...
Dennett further claimed that the outbreak of war had been instrumental in changing the applications of many objectors who formerly had signified their intention to enter the country's objector camps, but now wish to enlist in active service...
More specifically, he emphasized that an officer must be better than his men. "Get into good physical condition before you're drafted," he said. Besides math, science, and languages, he recommended that those who wish to become officers study up on the causes of the war, on map-reading, and on military history...
...McGinnis accepted an invitation to compete for the New York State pocket billiards championship. First woman ever to challenge men in a major billiards tournament, she proved no discredit to her sex. As the tournament entered its homestretch last week, "the skirt" had won four matches, lost five. "I wish I could throw my leg over the table the way men do," said diminutive Miss McGinnis...
...were shorter, more compact, and perhaps a little less heroic in tone, "One Foot in Heaven" might rank as one of the outstanding movies of the year. As it is, it's rather tiring and dull. But its high-spots are worth seeing; they make you wish there were more of them...