Word: wishing
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Currently, Harvard students who wish toparticipate in ROTC must travel to MIT to do so.The University banned ROTC from campus in 1969,when tensions over the Vietnam War enraged studentactivists. In 1994, the University stoppedpayments to MIT for the ROTC program, citingconcerns about discrimination against gaystudents...
Linus' last big wish was to do for medicine what he had done for chemistry. But using vitamins to conquer mental diseases, the common cold and cancer proved more than a tall order even for him. That Linus did not get his final triumph should not surprise us. Failure hovers uncomfortably close to greatness. What matters now is his perfections, not his past imperfections...
...March 1938, when Freud was 81, the Nazis took over Austria, and after some reluctance, he immigrated to England with his wife and his favorite daughter and colleague Anna "to die in freedom." He got his wish, dying not long after the Nazis unleashed World War II by invading Poland. Listening to an idealistic broadcaster proclaiming this to be the last war, Freud, his stoical humor intact, commented wryly, "My last...
...field, it never flew anywhere at all. When he'd return to Clark, fizzled missile in hand, he'd be greeted by a colleague asking, as was his habit, "Well, Robert, how goes your moongoing rocket?" When he steeled himself to publish his work, the Times made him wish he hadn...
...main thing that I wish were different," Beck says, "was that there were so few people that went away. I have a lot of friends at other schools where a lot of people go away, and it's a much more common experience...