Word: dearingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day, Roosevelt complained of "a terrific headache," pressed his hand to his forehead and then fell unconscious in his chair. Churchill cabled the President's widow his grief at the loss of "a dear and cherished friendship which was forged in the fire of war." Perhaps he also remembered not just the great battles won but the small exchanges: the time Roosevelt sent him a postage stamp postmarked on the cruiser Augusta the day Churchill had climbed aboard; the time Roosevelt jokingly sent him a newspaper clipping suggesting that Churchill's wife was descended from Mormons...
...Forgive me. I have not explained things well, not the way I would've wanted. The words in my head won't do it, only the paintings could tell the whole of it and they're in a language you don't read. What I leave you, my dear brothers and you too father if you survive me is only the smallest part of what I wanted to give you out of the great love...
...ironic contrast between the concern officials profess for the flexibility of a given room or House, and the relative inflexibility of their own policies on accommodating students--and it is this very rigidity which may be taking the heaviest toll on the House spirit they hold so dear...
ABOUT TWO WEEKS ago, many Seattlites received a political plea for support on behalf of Booth Gardner a Democrat hopeful for the governor hip. This short note, courteously addressed. "Dear Friend of Senator Jackson,' stated that the Senator had originally "encouraged" Gardner to run, and was fully behind his assault on the Governor's chair. This endorsement was highly unusual; Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson was never one to become overly involved in local election, the more so after his death more than a year...
...precisely here that one should wrench his attention away from what traditionally seems to matter in considering a movie and focus it on what truly matters. "Yes-oh, dear, yes-the novel tells a story," E.M. Forster once announced in a self-described "drooping regretful voice," and it is the same, only more so, with movies. Having provided richly for this simple need, Benton is free to turn to what really interests him: the quality of the lives that people lead between the plotlines, their sense of the world and of their connections with it. In particular, his business...