Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even mention the heresies of Dole and Bush. He was his old positive self, sunnily extolling democracy, tax cuts, free enterprise, Thomas Jefferson and the space program. Afterward, the man whom aides have tried to wean from expounding at length on the gold standard had only one regret: "I wish I had time to mention Bretton Woods...
...touched many other hearts. Supportive letters have poured into his office. A professor's wife from Erie, Pa., tells Clark his philosophy and style are just right; a mother of two from Queens, N.Y., approves of his tough line; and a senior citizen from Olympia, Wash., writes simply, "I wish we had a few more like you." Many of the letters contain money -- in amounts from $2 to $100 -- for Clark's defense fund. This past week brought some big bucks. Jack Berdy, chairman and CEO of On-Line Software, a computer company in Fort Lee, N.J., pledged $1 million...
...THIS instance, all the arguments which the press generally offers against allowing the Court to require the printing of material that the owner of a paper may not wish to see appear fell by the wayside. Suddenly, the press was commited to a position of allowing diversity of opinion...
...wish the phone company were being paid to ignore you. The most frightening thing is that they are not," he said...
According to the Apology, Socrates admitted that a guilty verdict "was not a surprise." Why so? Stone concludes that the sage, tired of life, did not wish vindication and went out of his way to antagonize the jury. Among other things, Socrates boasted that the oracle at Delphi had said of him, "No man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent." As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury...