Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name. The biggest vote getter in Illinois history, excepting his father's gubernatorial landslide, he was sworn in immediately after the November elections to fill the remaining four years of the late Senator Dirksen's term. He hit the deck running, voting for a job-safety bill dear to Democrats...
...John And so, dear friends You just have to carry on. The dream is over...
...Dear Mayor Vellucei...
...Dear Henry...
Miller's Hamlet begins with the second scene of Act I, at Claudius's speech, "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/the memory is green..." The justification for this is that the opening scene is unnecessary, since the ghost turns up again, anyway, and the scene does not add to the action. This argument has some validity, since the opening of the second scene introduces the entire court and establishes the character of Claudius, but the first scene is necessary to define the supernatural character of Hamlet's obsession. Miller is cheating by omitting it, since it tends...