Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody really knows much about seasickness, except the experts, who wish they didn't. Doctors know little about its cause (they prefer to call it "motion sickness," since car, air, and seasickness are the same thing). They think it may result from nerve impulses touched off by the sloshing about of fluid in the inner ear's semicircular canals. At least four people in ten are susceptible to motion sickness, some so readily that watching a tennis ball in play, spinning on a stool, or even hearing a sea voyage mentioned turns their stomachs. Most people, after...
...teachers, 890,000 pupils) will have one of education's most thankless jobs. There are fine things about the New York system (including excellent technical high schools, special classes for handicapped youngsters). But most parents who can afford it send their kids to private schools, and many others wish they could find the money...
...write of the wish that comes true ... a terrifying concept. I think my stories have some quality of the opening of a forbidden box, and that it is this, rather than violence, sex . . . that gives them the drive...
...direction. Stewart, as a fine, self-sacrificing, humanity-loving, small-town American, somehow manages to seem human. Although a list of his good deeds and worthy aims would put Skeezix to shame, you almost never get that sadistic hope which a saint-like character usually brings on, that overwhelming wish to see him kick an old woman down a flight of stairs or short-change a small boy. Instead, you like him as much as you like the worst heel Bogart ever played, and you're right with him all the way through the picture...
Said Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Sheil: "Of all the priests I know, Abbot Ondrak has been most generous and most eager in his response to the Church's wish for priests who, in the words of Pope Pius XI, dedicate the better part of their endeavors and their zeal to winning back the laboring masses to Christ and to His Church. He has battled against economic injustices. . . . He has . . . battled . . . against unemployment, insecurity, disease and crime. . . . Because of him, and men like him, no one can say that the [Roman] Catholic Church is irrelevant today...