Fortunately for the Yankees, they did not allow George Steinbrenner's wide-eyed desire for a big-name big hitter to prompt them to clean their shelves of minor league and other prospects.
But the postwar boom also coincided with a Caribbean-wide desire for self-rule and independence from weakened European nations.
On Monday, the Maccabees announced that they were splitting up after 14 years together, citing no animosity and a band-wide desire to keep making music.
A successful anti-immigrant and separatist party, Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), is the odious expression of a wider desire to go it alone.
But he also tapped a wider desire for change.Like an increasing number of Quebeckers, Mr Dumont refuses to define himself as either a federalist or a separatist.
What's more, it represents society's wider desire to ghettoise children - and their parents - rather than create a world where everyone gets along.
But, as revealed by the Guardian this week, there is also a wider desire to ensure that the public purse shares in any upside for West Ham from moving to the well-connected, 60,000 capacity stadium.
The Slovakia defender Jan Durica has suggested Martin Skrtel was dismissed in the defeat by England because the match officials favoured the stronger nation, hinting at a wider desire within the game for the highest ranked teams to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
This new raft of conductors also reflects a wider desire to rebrand an art form that has come to be seen as the exclusive property of the grey-haired and well-heeled.If the goal is to project a more dynamic face, Mr Nelsons fits the bill.
That in turn may reflect a wider desire for a change of direction in the province.Mr Klein took office in 1992 with a simple mission: to restore Alberta to prosperity by cutting government spending and eliminating whopping deficits and debts.
Huge research group acquisitions, like Google's $500 million purchase of Deep Mind, highlight an industry-wide desire to conduct more AI research internally.
