Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting in the movie: it's all standard, mass-produced, with always the right gesture or tone of voice for the right emotion, all as dull as the day-before-yesterday's newspaper. Maureen O'Hara is as bosomy an example of pretty American girlhood as one could wish; Cornel Wilde is a fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they...
...flight below the ground in A entry workmen are busy making another music room, this time for students who wish to practice their particular instruments without interruption...
...Security Council was just about to open a session on the touchy Greek border situation. Australia's William R. Hodgson asked for the floor. "I wish to speak," he said, "on a matter pertaining to the . . . happiness of certain people who serve us faithfully and well-our chauffeurs. [They are] cooped up in a room without air, without airconditioning, without water and without reading matter. Now they are not even allowed to have a five-cent game of gin rummy in their spare time [because of a ban against gambling...
...indications are now that plans for the 1951 Red Book and the 1947-48 Album must definitely be cancelled immediately, unless the University ruling on purveyors lists is changed. We wish to preclude the Council's incurring any further debts...
...Chinese common man has one and only one wish-that is to stop the internecine civil war at once. Any outside interference from any country would only prolong and intensify his sufferings...