Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish the people of the world who are speaking put so loudly against the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam and the incident of My Lai could see the "friendly" villagers by day and the fighting hardcore V.C. by night. I wish they could see the women and children setting booby traps and mines. I wish they could see a young child that has had his limbs cut off by V.C. terrorists. I wish they could see the good will many of our troops have spread throughout the countryside of South Viet Nam. I wish they could see the harm...
...might wish to recall the thought of Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov, "People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel...
...this year, Cook is the American Football League's leading passer. Yet the scouts can be fallible too. One fellow who was somehow overlooked last year was Yale's Calvin Hill-the Dallas Cowboys' running sensation this year. In presenting the choices for 1969, the editors wish both scouts and players a very good year...