Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a lyric manner, did Fabre, one of the world's great entomologists, record the daily lives of insects: fired by devotion to his "dear friends," he could describe the horrid or the humdrum in paragraphs almost like fairy tales in their mystery and charm...
...critic for the News Chronicle raised a lone voice of dissent: '"Forgive me dear. I can't cry,' said the Salesman's wife over his grave . . . Forgive me, Paul Mum, but I can't cry either." The driest eyes of all, however, were those of the box-office clerks, busily selling tickets for ten weeks ahead...
...some of Balliol's new postwar, government-aided scholarship students. Once he told the House of Lords why he was so concerned: "They were from poor homes and poor schools; they were boys for whom getting a state scholarship meant absolutely everything. Therefore their headmasters . . . embraced them. Their dear parents embraced them. Keen competition had ruined their health, almost their minds. They could only pass examinations...
Senate investigators had been heating up a griddle for the two major generals since last month, when the New York Herald Tribune broke the story of ex-Army Colonel James V. Hunt, a five-percenter whose "dear friends" assertedly helped him get contracts. The two major generals were high up on Hunt's list...