Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't ever wish my injuries on anybody, for I feel for anyone who has to go through what I did," she said. "But at the same time I've learned how to deal with injuries and disappointment...
Twice in the past week, I received an entreaty to make the wish of little Jessica Mydek, supposedly a child with terminal cancer, come true. All I had to do was forward the electronic message to as many people as I knew. Further, the message claimed that the American Cancer Society (ACS) and other corporations would donate three cents to continuing cancer research for every person who received the message. People with questions were encouraged to e-mail...
...touch up sloppy special-effects shots that had always bothered him. "I was tired of people saying, 'What do you think of the movie?' and I'd say, 'Well, I was unhappy with the final result, because I only achieved 50% or 60% of what I wanted and I wish it would be better.' And everybody would look at me funny and say, 'What do you mean? It was successful.' But every time I saw it, I'd think, 'Oh God, that's so awful, I can't watch this...
...exactly because the church already allows such diverse ceremonies to take place, which certainly do not all fully comply with every literal word in the Bible, that it is unjust for Memorial Church to exclude homosexuals who wish to have their unions blessed in the Church, assuming those involved have a clergy member willing to perform the ceremony. Furthermore, the Church does receive some financial assistance from the University in terms of the maintenance of its buildings and grounds, which means that indirectly at least, students pay to support part of the Church. Therefore, it is clearly within the jurisdiction...
...between all the technical wizardry and intentional banality. "Star Wars" recounts the story of the fall of the evil Galactic Empire, a futuristic Reign of Terror that seeks to subjugate the entire universe under its tyrannical rule. The heroes of the film appear in the form of rebels who wish to restore democratic government to the domains of the Empire, and it is through their eyes that the audience witnesses the sequence of events that predictably culminates in the destruction of the imperial regime...