Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright hopes of the Democratic Party, learned that he had a mild form of cancer. At first, he decided to plow ahead with his re-election campaign. Then he thought better of it. As a friend told him, "Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time on my business.' " Tsongas gave up his political career to spend his time with his family. He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. He may have given a deeper reading to a line of W.B. Yeats: "Man is in love, and loves what vanishes...
Said developer Donald Trump who donated $1 million to the veterans and to a jobs program set up by the city to help unemployed New York veterans, "It's a great evening I only wish it could have taken placed 10 years...
...full advantage of these rights, straining the patience of those who do not favor divestiture, by handing out leaflets, holding rallies, shouting through megaphones, setting up tables at all the Houses to gather signatures, occupying Harvard buildings and now assaulting foreign diplomats invited by other student organizations. If they wish to have their rights protected to hold peaceful assembly, they should have the decency to recognize that not everybody agrees with their position and that others have the right to engage in similar yet opposed activities. I suspect, however, that most of those students involved in the incident...
...sides laid another wreath at the Torgau cemetery against a polished gravestone on which clasped hands are chiseled. Buried there is Joseph Polowsky, a Chicago taxi driver and former 69th Division rifleman who was a member of the Kotzebue patrol. When he died two years ago of cancer, his wish to be buried beside the Elbe was granted by East German authorities...
Being pro-choice is being pro-life. It is respecting every woman's personal decision to beat children or not to bear children. At this point in history abortion cannot be decreed away, however much we all wish that one day such measures will be wholly unnecessary. In the meantime, abortion can be made state as long as it is legal; our present task is to ensure every woman's control over her own life and the bearing of children who are truly wanted. Toba E. Spitzer...