Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those who wish may take this story as an epic of the Harvard freshman year...
Though Cambridge's city fathers print "Cambridge-The University City," on their information brochure, they may often wish that, back in 1636, the Great and General Court had decided to plant its new college somewhere else-where, for example, Malden or Dorchester or another of the communities ringing Boston now stands...
...houses against snipers, and soldiers riding shotgun on the boats now snooze through the voyage. Most of the schools closed down after the 1965 massacres have reopened. Journalists, long barred from the south, are now welcome. "Go anywhere you like," an official urged, "and stay as long as you wish. We want you to learn the truth." According to Brigadier General Mohamed Abdul Gadir, head of the Southern Command since the May coup, the Anya Nya are short of arms and ammunition...
...leaders of the radical left, intellect was developed at much too early an age, and at the expense of their emotional development. Although exceedingly bright, some remained emotionally fixated at the age of the temper tantrum." > "The political content of student revolt is most of all a desperate wish that the parent should have been strong in the convictions that motivate his actions. This is why so many of our radical students embrace Maoism, why they chant 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh' in their demonstrations. They chant of strong fathers with strong convictions." >"We should not overlook...
...three years after his U.S. tour in 1958, and was later granted an exit visa only on condition that his wife remained in Russia as a "moral hostage." Eventually, Khrushchev gave them permission to travel together, arid once they left home, they never returned. "No sane person would wish to run such a risk again," said Ashkenazy...