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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential fireside chat is not an institution in France; but Vincent Auriol, impelled by the gravity of the hour, took to the radio last week with a few cogent words of admonition. "Dear compatriots," he said, "continuity of the Republic and the permanence of France . . . require civic concord, so my first wish is that we should reform at the earliest moment our political and social habits as well as certain institutions, that we should silence fatal passions and hatreds-those hatreds which I have sometimes had to suffer in the silence imposed by my high position, those hatreds which rend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Dear Compatriots | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Cloying Limit. In Baltimore, Frederick Steeg, 24, got a divorce on grounds of desertion after he read the note left behind by his wife Mabel: "Dear Freddie . . . Don't be so good to your next wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...about her island, keeping the festive spirit under control and supervising all the details of preparation. She saw the last of a spanking new coat of paint slapped on to her white Victorian-gingerbread royal palace, oversaw daily rehearsals of the entertainment program, including the plaintive nose-fluting solos dear to the heart of every Tongan despite the fact that their music is limited to three notes. There were triumphant rustic arches, bearing the legend "I Love You" to be made for the royal route of march, tapa cloth banners to be cut and painted, pigs to be killed, pineapples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reunion in Paradise | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...against him. When a bomb was finally exploded in the Führer's presence in July 1944, he was stunned and his famed forelock was set alight, but he lived to revel in the torture deaths of many of the men who made the plot. So dear to Hitler's baleful eye was the sight of a German general slowly strangling on a slim cord at the end of a meathook that he had a film of the hangings run off for his benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghosts in Field-Grey | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...thought that would end it, but back came Mr. Fox, with: "Dear Mr. McMasters. I suggest that you check your references and sources again. After a little thinking, I think that you may understand them better. Thanks for your interest. Sincerely, John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WORLD IN A SILVER FOX COAT | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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