Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thompson's praiseful speeches about him. At record's end "the sorrow seemed to drop off his shoulders and he looked a young man again. . . . Now Thompson, if you're not quiet, I'll turn on that record now." Murmured Thompson: "I wish you would...
...They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them...
Adolf Hitler, visiting the Eastern Front, asked a soldier what his last wish would be if a Russian shell should land near him. "I would wish,'' the soldier answered, "that my Führer stood beside...
...painful subject to thoughtful Britons is the brass hats' attitude toward the labor shortage. The brass hats wish in all circumstances to keep Britain's 4,000,000-man Army in the field. In spite of military experts, who insist that the power of a modern army lies in its mechanization plus a huge force of industry behind it, the brass hats have prevailed...
...every ten Argentines, nine of us admire your country and its great pilot, Mr. Roosevelt. We wish to cooperate enthusiastically in a great effort toward continental unity...