Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sham, unlike Pam, is not running from but gunning for the young squire, son of her late mistress, and writing her mother progress reports: " 'Laud,' says I, 'Sir, I hope you don't intend to be rude'; 'no,' says he, 'my Dear,' and then he kissed me, 'till he took away my Breath-and I pretended to be Angry, and to get away, and then he kissed me again, and breathed very short, and looked very silly; and by Ill-Luck Mrs. Jervis came in, and had like to have...
...answer is cryptic, as befits a man whose time is worth "$10,000 per day." (Satevepost Dec. 5). "Dear Mr. McMasters," he said, "This is in reply to your letter of November 3. May I call to your attention what the Merriam Webster Dictionary has to say about collective nouns? Even old reporters can learn new tricks. Sincerely, John Fox." He must have been very busy as his letter bore the date of Dec. 1, nearly four weeks after mine was sent. I thanked him for his kind directive to an old reporter and told him that I had consulted...
...Dear General Vaughan...
Painful Reminder. The Kekkonen incident was a painful reminder of Finland's dangerous dependence on Soviet trade concessions. For eight years (1944-52), the Finns worked like demons to pay the Soviet Union $570 million in reparations. The effort cost them dear. To meet Soviet demands for ships and machinery, Finland was forced to double the capacity of its metal industry. It ended up with an artificial industrial plant, geared not to its own needs but to Russia's, and lacking alternative (nonCommunist) markets to take care of the surplus. Wages were allowed to rise to uneconomic levels...
...stayed on at Texas A. & M.* But he did not realize just how much he had disliked his 2¼ years there until he paid a visit to the University of Oklahoma. When he got back, Clark dashed off a letter to the undergraduate newspaper, The Battalion. It began: "Dear darling Aggies...