Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...definitely hard," Green said. "Sometimes you wish you could contribute more. But you really have no control over it. It's still good to see the team do well...
City Councilors Saundra Graham, Francis H. Duehay '55 and Alice Wolf said they had received complaints that independent cab drivers who use radio dispatching services frequently do not answer the less lucrative calls from passengers who wish to travel short distances. They said many of these people are elderly or handicapped, and depend heavily on cab service...
...targets now handled by them. Still, West European leaders have long clamored for removal of the Soviet SS-20s. They now have to face the very real possibility of such an event and its complicated consequences. Diplomats may be recalling an aphorism of Oscar Wilde: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers...
...transmutes his struggles into vibrant farce devoid of self-pity. During an emblematic sleepless night, as nightmare figures ranging from an immigration officer to condescending liberals pop out from beneath their bed, the pragmatic couple never complain of life's unfairness. They accept having to prove themselves. They just wish it would not take so long...
...they can make an art as universal as Kafka's. They speak of their homeland with attempted distaste: "In Eastern Europe, nobody has a sincere smile except drunks and informers." They echo Poland's subjugation: they yearn to be Russian refugees, who they believe are more in fashion, and wish they had Russian goods to sell. But in the most poignant scene they feel compelled to telephone someone, anyone, back home, just to ask how things are. After realizing that everyone they can think of has emigrated, gone to prison, committed suicide, become a collaborator or retreated into paranoid fear...