Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innocent people winning from $800 to $1,500 to keep the chain process alive. But I have yet to find anyone who has won the $4,096." But newspapers which warned against Pyramid Clubs or prosecutors who tried to break them up, quickly discovered that the pyramiders had no wish to be saved. In Los Angeles' suburban Huntington Park, a courtroom-full of pyramiders hugged, kissed and cheered Justice of the Peace Stanley Moffatt after he ruled that the clubs were not illegal...
...Similar practices are not unknown in the U.S. In 1863, Horace Greeley denounced the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
...wish to lessen the present tension," Mindszenty had written. "I voluntarily admit that, in principle, I committed the acts in the indictment . . . After 35 days of constant meditation ... I consider that an agreement between church and state is necessary ... I hereby willingly declare-free from pressure, of course-that I am willing to withdraw from the exercise of my duties for a time...
...court Mindszenty again & again declared he was sorry for what he had done. When he admitted receiving dollar donations from abroad, and letting his subordinates sell them on the black market, he said: "I am sorry. I wish to repay the damage done to the Hungarian state...
This Sunday, Portugal's "qualified" voters may, if they wish, go to the polls. Since Salazar seized power 20 years ago there have been several presidential "elections," but this was the first in which an opposition candidate was permitted. Once a seminarist slated for the priesthood, later a university economist, devout, self-effacing Dictator Salazar believes the masses incapable of governing themselves. Every now & then he lets the opposition show its head, to make a show of "democracy...