Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wounded men had the same burning wish. Said one sailor: "Before this we didn't want to fight anybody. But now all we want is to get well enough to get our crack at those bastards." He did not yet know that a wound from a bomb splinter on his spine would never let him fight or walk again...
...congratulate you-I thank you. . . . May I now wish you all a Merry Christmas...
Jane Wyman, self-acclaimed kissing champion of Hollywood and honorary top sergeant, pondered Britain's code-wary ban on Xs in love letters, dreamed up a substitute: lipstick impressions. "I wish every girl who writes to a soldier would send them," she confessed to the newspapers...
Cadaverous James Roosevelt, a captain of Marines, asked for active service at sea when Japan attacked the U.S. He was ordered to the Fleet Marine Force at San Diego, Calif. He will get his wish...
Argentina's internal political turmoil was blanketed under a state of siege suddenly ordered by Acting President Ramon S. Castillo. "I wish that no one speak ill of anyone," he said...