Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loyal friend to Captain Wilson, Charleston's wealthiest planter. Played adequately by John Marriott, George Wilson stands out for his inability to choose between the call of his race and the family which has reared him from birth in slavery. Educated, responsible, George, like Faust, has everything he could wish for except his soul. Hearing of the prospective revolution, he is unwilling to lend his support until he can be assured that the blow will come after his Master has left the city for the summer. But when at the last minute the Captain decides to stay, George is compelled...
...question there was no longer any maybe. That was the question of U.S. intentions. Speaking to the U.N. in Paris, Secretary of State George Marshall said: "The United States does not wish to increase the existing tension. It is its wholehearted desire to alleviate that tension . . . [But] it would be a tragic error if ... patience . . . should be mistaken for weakness...
...Western German regime. Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin's sole currency. He agrees not to insist on postponement of the West's plans for Western Germany, but wants it recorded as Russia's "insistent wish." The Russians certainly mean to do everything they can to delay Western German recovery. Stalin may have decided to concede the point and then fuzz up the deal on technicalities-an old Kremlin custom...
These men need not forfeit their ballot, however, if they wish to establish residence in Massachusetts and can fulfill the minimum state qualifications for voting...
...pretty brunette girl told passersby: "That's the one that got him." The staff of the U.N. truce mission had lost its last shred of idealism about its task. "I'm in the country where Christ was born," said a U.S. captain in a bar, "and I wish to Christ I was in the country where I was born...