Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pointed out that after Beaverbrook & Co., who shouted loudest for a tight, imperial trade system, were repudiated in the last elections, the new Government might have worked for a free trade world. But when the U.S. insisted on condemning imperial preference in 'the loan agreements, preference suddenly seemed dear to Britons...
...Lords Britain's most revered document came up for examination. As the Lords voted to lend the Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...
...there you are, my dear Bishop. We are certainly 'sunk into a complaining lethargy,' and we are entitled to be sunk in it, without blotting the pages of English history and without any nagging remarks from...
...Casey, with hundreds of others, was corralled and locked up by British soldiers. "Th' wild Irish," said a soldier then; "drink goes to their 'eads. Wot was bitin' em? Barmy, th' lot of 'em. Wot did they do it for? Larfable." "Poor, dear, dead men," says O'Casey now, "poor W. B. Yeats." The wit and rich lingo of Juno and the Paycock, the legendary and the tragic, real Ireland of The Plough and the Stars, run through his pages like the River Liffey through Dublin...
...quote from the papers, and keep your afterthoughts dry. Last week a story in Izvestia caught his fancy. He passed it along: "Red Army troops are evacuating Iran amid many expressions of love and admiration at mass meetings of the people. . . . From Meshed Comes a bulletin: ... 'as our dear guests by their good behavior left pleasant impressions . . . the Iranian people love the Soviet people from the bottom of their hearts...