Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive at Saint-Mihiel, won back a salient the Germans had held since 1914. Fourteen days after that, the U.S. First Army attacked on the Meuse-Argonne line, broke through the enemy trench systems, routed their way through the weary defenders. Pershing advocated driving on to Berlin. But his wish was thwarted by the Armistice...
...those of us who are in the company of the doomed wish that average Romanists knew where their church stands ... If they did, we suspect that liberty-loving American Catholics would force a genuine revision of policy or turn Protestant in droves...
...month later, The Doc, 67, was dead of a heart attack. Last week, Canterbury's trustees fulfilled Founder Hume's wish by appointing Walter Sheehan, 37, as Canterbury's second headmaster...
...Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...
...those who wish Picasso had kept his art "recognizable," the docents can quote the protean genius's own words. "What do you think an artist is," he once burst out, "an imbecile who has only his eyes?" They might also suggest that baffled gallery-goers become willing "imbeciles" themselves-using their eyes to the full, and not asking too many questions. But that of course might do away with the docents...