Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most disquieting news from India today," cried he, "is the fast which Mahatma Gandhi has entered. I wish we could notify him as soon as possible of a settlement between the two Dominions." Much affected, the Council decided to meet as often as possible until a solution was reached. Then they went to lunch. Next day, Pakistan's crescent-bearded Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, replied to the Indian. For 3¼ hours (breaking Andrei Vishinsky's U.N. record of two hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis...
...Democrat. Fighting the Japanese, he suffered several crushing defeats; to save his face, Chiang gave him ringing government titles. In 1946 Feng told the Generalissimo that he wanted to go to the U.S. to study water conservation and act as good-will ambassador for Chiang. "Whatever you wish, Ta Ko [Big Brother]," said Chiang. Ever since then, Feng has been in the U.S., making violent proCommunist, anti-Chiang propaganda. Cried he of Chiang: "Reactionary . . . dictator . . . traitor ... his rule must be overthrown...
...including all 22 priests) are members. "We want regular wages," Shigeru said, "but no regular eight-hour working days. Sometimes a whole delegation of believers shows up late at night, and we are quite agreeable to working odd hours. Our union intends to inform the Labor Ministry that we wish to maintain our union just for economic purposes...
...inane inclination of the average American to ... almost genuflect at the presence of a European title, phony or otherwise," snarled Sinclair Lewis, "is, to my mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe...
...wish I could paint more," Hopper says. "I get sick of reading and going to the movies. I'd much rather be painting all the time, but I don't have the impulse. Of course I do dozens of sketches for oils-just a few lines on yellow typewriter paper-and then I almost always burn them. If I do one that interests me, I go on and make a painting, but that happens only two or three times a year...