Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...based on actual happenings which were known to many American press correspondents in Poland. There was no need to employ spies, even had I had the unwise desire to do so. ... I [instructed] members of my staff that they should avoid contact with the underground, for I did not wish to endanger the safety of persons not in sympathy with the Polish Government...
Stanley G. Karson '48, chairman of the local chapter of the American Veterans Committee, said yesterday that efforts are being made to accommodate all students who wish to hear the former Vice-President. If Sanders Theatre does not prove large enough, another meeting place will be secured...
...worked well in Calcutta. Just after 62 people had been killed, 400 injured, in 24 hours, Gandhi had announced that he would not eat until "sanity returned to Calcutta." (Aside he said: "As usual I shall permit myself to add salt and soda bicarbonate to the water I may wish to drink during the fast.") Anxious Calcuttans read about the Mahatma's pulse rate, his blood pressure (both diastolic and systolic) and the acetone and albumen in his urine; they stopped rioting...
...might find among them a girl willing to marry him and come to San Nicandro. If you think it possible . . . write . . . making an appointment for making the girl's acquaintance so that our young man does not take a wife among other nations. ... If you don't wish to look after this matter our young man will take a gentile wife which thing won't please the Eternal. It won't be our fault since we know no refugee girls...
...have been working with the opposition to save my country. You, I know, consider me a stupid, stammering child. My Rumanians will judge that. But if you consider me to be a traitor, you will be completely disillusioned. I am the King of my country and your King. I wish to save the country and [shouting and'thumping the table] nobody can prevent...