Word: dearest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florence, and second with a Midwestern female scholar named Dr. Olivia Lomond. The affair with Olivia reaches its decisive stage in a chilly mountain inn. Gushes Hayden: "I'm not fit to love you!" Counters Olivia: "The wild highlander in me has come to life again . . . thank God. Dearest Hayden . . . quit smothering yourself...
...dearest pleasure here below." After Nelly
...cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish: 20 to 30 Sten guns to help arm the hundred local militiamen...
...letters in these years lack the personal touches found in those of the younger F.D.R. Nonetheless, there are occasional notes to his "Dearest Mama," reassuring her that "it was only a 2 day cold in the nose." And to his wife ("Dearest Babs") he found time to send a teasing letter declaring that, after worrying all week whether she wanted "undies, dresses, hats, shoes, sheets, towels, rouge, soup plates, candy, flowers, lamps, laxation pills, whisky, beer, etchings or caviar" for their wedding anniversary, "I GIVE...
Knowing Giuliano's affection for his mother ("the dearest thing in our lives"), Meldolesi wangled permission to photograph the old lady in jail (where she is being held for helping her son). Roaming the countryside, he showed the pictures to every peasant, carter and fisherman he met, hoping one would pass the word along. A month passed, with nary a nibble. Late one night, as Meldolesi and Reporter Jacopo Rizza wandered into the hills near Palermo, three masked gunmen seized the photographs, led the pair to an abandoned stable. Next morning, the door flew open and in strode Giuliano...