Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also can, and should, help within the limits of our capacity those who wish to help themselves. . . . This country has always responded to people struggling to attain or maintain their freedom. We have done so because it is important to us that they shall succeed...
...wish to call your attention to an error published in TIME, May 26, in connection with the death of John R. Sinnock, chief engraver of the United States Mint, Philadelphia. He was given the "credit of being the designer of the Purple Heart. This is a mistake, as I was the designer and Mr. Sinnock the sculptor. This is substantiated by records of the War Department...
Through the dingy corridors of City Hall, the big news typhooned. Within half an hour, hundreds of jobholders dutifully swirled into Boss Hague's office to wish him luck. They also took care to shake hands heartily with Heir Apparent Eggers. By noon, 2,000 citizens overflowed into the streets. All city business was suspended...
Last week Short Laig got his wish. The independent Foreman's Association of America, which had struck the Ford Motor Co. in the confident belief it could close it drum-tight, was getting the worst thrashing in its six-year career. And it was being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...
Oriana Atkinson denies being an expert on Russia, and sensible readers of Over at Uncle Joe's will not wish to dispute her. Neither can they disagree when she writes, "But after ten months in Moscow I do claim this: I know more about Russia than anybody who has never been there...