Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada can do it the U.S., with an even vaster supply of foodstuffs and materials, should be able...
...Eleanor Roosevelt vigorously defended the right of European refugees to decide whether they wish to return to their home countries, as opposed to repeated Russian demands by Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, that all be forced to return...
...wish to direct your attention to a statement appearing on p. 32 of the Oct. 14 issue of TIME, wherein I was referred to in a vicious and unwarranted manner. Whether a literary wag said it or whether TIME is using that as a cover is immaterial. The printing of such a statement in TIME is inexcusable and the only conclusion that I can arrive at is that it was deliberate inasmuch as I was the only one singled out in such a manner...
...entered the gymnasium, and all officers, official witnesses and correspondents rose to attention. Ribbentrop's manacles were removed and he mounted the steps (there were 13) to the gallows. With the noose around his neck, he said: "My last wish ... is an understanding between East and West. . . ." All present removed their hats. The executioner tightened the noose. A chaplain standing beside him prayed. The assistant executioner pulled the lever, the trap dropped open with a rumbling noise, and Ribbentrop's hooded figure disappeared. The rope was suddenly taut, and swung back & forth, creaking audibly...
...honor were charmed by Father Matthews' urbane polish, his easy, fluid gestures, the Caribbean cadence of his speech. He told them: "It is sometimes alleged-not without some foundation in the past history of the culture-conflict of the Negro in the New World-that Negroes do not wish to be ministered to by priests of their own race. ... To say that in this year of grace and achievement, 1946, is ... a most vicious form of propaganda.. . . The business of salvation is not a racial enterprise. Christianity is an interracial economy in the mystical body of Christ...