Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...nick of time, for war has broken out in Europe. "Like most ORC men, I spent more of my free time at the armory. We all knew how important it was to keep up with the latest equipment . . . (next panel) And a few months later I got my wish--that husky son was born--and on schedule...
...dreamiest girl I ever danced with." He has fun at summer camp, talking with the fellows over chow ("I feel plenty rugged after my first morning!") shooting machine guns ("Boy, this training sure is like the real thing!"), meeting bathing girls at the pool ("Kinda makes me wish I was a local boy!"). At the end of the four-year whirl, he is chosen to escort the campus queen at Homecoming...
Working through the Voluntary Defenders Committee, Incorporated, in Boston, the Law students distribute cards to the Middlesex and Suffolk county jails, the signing of which indicates a criminal's wish to be represented by a member of the group. A man is sent to investigate the defendant's need, bear his story, and the case is taken over by the Committee until the court submits its final ruling...
Landing at Pusan two weeks ago, a Turkish officer said sadly: "We are jealous. We wish ... we could join the fighting." U.N. forces reaching Korea in the future would have even less chance to see any heavy fighting, but they would be welcome nonetheless. By carrying out mopping-up operations and occupation duties, they could free combat-weary U.S. troops for a return to Japan...
After she went to her berth, "I sat drinking my milk and thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight...