Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact seemed to be that the Kremlin badly wanted a settlement. The airlift had defeated the Russian blockade, costing the Russians dear in prestige and popularity. It had transported 1,540,969 tons in 310 days, steadily upped its totals in spite of the German winter. Meanwhile the West's counter-blockade had pinched Eastern Germany badly. With the Communists' gigantic triumphs in Asia, they could afford a strategic retreat in Europe without disastrous loss of face...
...appreciation. Then he turned and gravely faced the audience. Ten minutes and five curtain calls later, he quieted them for some words. Said he, so softly that some in the back could hardly hear: "I knew it would be hard to separate myself from you, my public, and my dear orchestra. But let's be happy that we have had 25 years together. Let's be happy that we have worked and created the greatest orchestra in the world...
...Dear VP, Sorry I missed you-I needed advice. H.S.T...
...punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece of humanity as Hollywood has ever treated at length...
When the guns stopped firing off Cape Trafalgar in October 1805, a young seaman sat down and wrote to his father: "Our dear Admiral Nelson is killed...