Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of the Union message, he had abandoned his plans for a fighting speech full of urgent recommendations for expanded social security and other plans dear to his own heart but anathema to many a Congressman. Instead he spoke in broad outlines, with friendly, conciliatory gestures. Probably bitter fights were inevitable between this Congress and the Administration, but the President had at least postponed them. Not since the first "honeymoon days" of his Administration had Franklin Roosevelt received such an overwhelmingly favorable reaction to a speech. Not since the first days after Pearl Harbor had Washington seemed so united...
...Cassidy. Late in September, at the insistence of his Manhattan bosses, he wrote to Stalin asking for an interview, expected no results. But several days later he was roused by a midnight call from the Foreign Office. Cassidy rushed over, was amazed to find a letter from Stalin: "Dear Gospodin (Mr.) Cassidy: Owing to the pressure of work ... I shall confine myself to a brief written answer. . . ." This was the famed letter in which Stalin called for Second Front...
Still more embarrassed were Government propagandists who had just issued pamphlets urging the Italian people to be as brave as the British were during the blitz. The Neapolitans had an answer for that. In the Cathedral of San Gennaro they knelt in prayer, mumbling: "Dear God. direct the bombers on to Rome. That is where Mussolini...
Next move will be for WLB to tell its troubles to the President, who may pen a "Dear Mr. Avery" letter. Chances were it would work. Though he pooh-poohed the validity of the powers that Franklin Roosevelt delegated to WLB, Mr. Avery also said: "... If the President of the United States . . . directs that Wards accept the Board's rulings ... we will respectfully obey...
...Dear Subscriber There is so much important, uncensored information in our files and on our desks these days that all last week we were busy being photographed and fingerprinted here at TIME-to make sure only people who belong here are admitted to our floors...