Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear Time-Reader
...every appropriation was so charmingly and successfully lobbied through. When the Army Civil Functions Appropriations, commonly known as the pork barrel, passed the House last week, it was a wan descendant of bygone pork barrels. The bill provided $412,391,600 for dams, bridges, other engineering projects dear to the hearts of Congressmen. With wondrous forbearance, the Representatives resisted the pressures and blandishments of lobbyists and constituents, bravely cut $86,250,000 from the already trimmed-down Eisenhower budget. It was $171,675,000 less than last year's pork appropriation. Congressional thrift touched off speculation about the pending...
...Dear Daddy." "I do not recognize the name," said Georgescu, fighting to keep his voice level...
...This will no doubt prove my identity," he said. He handed Georgescu a photograph of his sons. On the back was written, "Dear Daddy, please do all you can to help us." It was signed, "Costa and Peter." Georgescu left the room for a moment "to disguise my emotion." But when he returned, he said, firmly, "I want to know exactly...
When the little prince was born, in 1865, his grandmama Victoria wanted his first name to be Frederick, but she gave in to his parents' preference for George Frederick Ernest Albert. "If the dear child grows up good and wise," wrote Queen Victoria, "I shall not mind what his name...