Word: yearned
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...Italians, a humorous people, got a wry pleasure out of tipping their hats. In a country where the proper salute is an upraised hand word passed quietly that hat-tipping was an expression of the yearn ing for peace. Many hats were tipped on the streets. Humor of another kind was furnished to a fashionable audience largely of women in Rome by Major Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the futurist school of Italian poetry. After telling his audience that "the Italian is hated by the masculine world, but adored by the feminine world," and proposing the formation of a corporation...
Periodically, U. S. artists and art dealers yearn for $5 customers-lots of them...
...quite like this. You see, this is the end of something--the final wind-up. This is what has brought intensity to everything seen and done. And this very intensity of enjoyment has banished satisfaction--even as the lover cannot enjoy a parting kiss when he knows he will yearn in the future for the lips he now feels. The future--new kisses, new surroundings, new interests--is too remote to cool present emotions...
...Clifton "Information Please" Fadiman of the New Yorker, Marquand said, "The awful thing in writing in to take yourself too seriously. I don't want ever to feel I'm a great writer I want to be only too conscious of my own defects. Nor do I yearn to write a 'monumental work...
...women love and men folks yearn...