Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled the typewriter over the blank desk top and started to write. "Dear Sir," he typed. It was a difficult letter, but he moved along. The tough paragraph was the one that started, "While my experience has been limited...
...both towns had Communist mayors, but they got different treatment from their bosses. Little Eugeni played the Duce: "Qui comando io!" (Here, I command!) were his favorite words as he pounded a wobbly table. When he decided to dismiss lower officials like the village doctor, he wrote simply: "Dear Dr. Pirro, I have the honor to inform you you have been fired, (signed) Eugeni." He also fined Village Priest Don Vittorio for collecting money for the harvest festival without his authorization...
...Dear Coach-To be very truthful with you I am uncurtain as to how to begin this letter. My name you probley see from the heading. I am now a student at Ohio State University. I have changed a little sence you last contacted me. . . . I have played halfback on the Ohio State team in 1944, witch won the national championship, witch you probley remmember. And I also played in the East-West game. . . . I am intersed in coming to your university, this of course if you are intersed in my comming down there. . . . Sence coming out of the Army...
...from my dear old home you come, And all its glories you can name; Oh tell me-has the winter plum Yet blossomed o'er the window frame...
After their return to California and civilization, they had a letter from Frau Wittmer. "My dear friends," she wrote, "before you come back to the Galápagos, do it overthink one hundred times." Having overthought it, the Conways went back last winter, are now ensconced again on their favorite island, Santiago. They remembered the raptures of a friend: "Santiago air is cool and fresh, it rains plenty, and everywhere are pigs. Here is a pig, there is a pig, under every tree is a pig! It is just like paradise...