Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know what should be done," says a don't-quote-me G.O.P. wheat-state Senator. Vermont's George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee and longtime farm policy specialist, shakes his head in confessed bewilderment. Louisiana's Allen Ellender, Agriculture Committee chairman, mutters, "I wish I knew," when asked what he thinks Congress will do about farm reform this session...
...last week Eleanor Dulles, sister of John Foster and an official of the State Department's "German Desk," pointedly stated in a Wisconsin speech that "new plans for the relations of the two parts of Germany and Berlin" might be considered by the West if the Communists "wish to relax somewhat the rigors of the regime in East Germany...
...Gabriella, 19, at last had her own say on the matchmaking. "I'll never marry a man I do not love," she told Rome's II Messaggero. "Since I do not love him, I will not marry the Shah of Iran, assuming he has indicated such a wish." But the press quickly offered another candidate: suave, blond Don Juan Carlos, 21, son of the Spanish Pretender, who danced attendance on the princess on a 1954 cruise. This time Maria's denial was strikingly vague: "I only wish to finish my studies...
When the Chinese want to wish anyone harm, according to Novelist Monica Stirling, they say, "May you live at an interesting period of history." The saying may or may not be authentic, but its barbed humor especially befits the century in which the high cost of living has been surpassed only by the higher cost of staying alive. Authors Meray and Stirling take a Communist Party bureaucrat and a teen-age refugee girl, respectively, and evoke contrasting symbols of 20th century corruption and redemption...
After yesterday's failure, Lorenz remarked that the Cambridge Debate Union might wish to change the topic before attempting another debate. If the topic is not changed, however, Harvard speakers will again oppose thanking God for the Atlantic, and yesterday's technical difficulties may constitute a strong point in their opposition...