Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to second the nomination [by B. G. Hoos, TIME, May 9] of the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill as the Man of the Half-Century...
...wish we had another Yale game" one biddy said yesterday. "We didn't make beds on Saturday because everyone was in Yale, and we didn't make them Monday because everyone...
Russia plainly hopes by degrees to wipe out our position in China. Yet this cannot be done overnight. It is by no means certain that the Chinese Communists want to subordinate themselves to Russia or that they wish to eliminate American contact, or that, if they do, they can succeed soon. No matter what the Chinese Communists want, China is still oriented toward the West in many ways commercial, educational, cultural...
...newsman--William German, head of the San Francisco Chronicle's copy desk--put it this way: "We're tremendously impressed with Harvard's vitality and stimulation. There's so much worth doing here that I wish I could spend a full four years...
...issue was as clear cut as any Republican could wish. It was the Fair Deal and its welfare state. The Republicans' John Foster Dulles did not say "yes, but-" or hint he could do it better; he declared bluntly that the Fair Deal was "statism," and he was against it. The Democrats' Herbert Lehman accepted the challenge headon: "If I go to Washington, I will work for a welfare state...