Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...softens the crowd up with references to their homeland. (You've got to be careful not to say the wrong thing," Moore says. "For instance, you don't praise Jan Masaryk in front of a Slovak group--the Slovaks hate the Czech's guts.") Then relates the near and dear to his subject ("Garibaldi was a Republican, too.") Often Moore flavors his speech with some phrases in the native tongue...
...more serious tone, he told his own Illinois delegates not to vote for him, saying that he did not aspire to the presidency and was "temperamentally, physically and mentally" unfitted for the job. Told of a Washington story that President Truman had decided to support him, he said: "Dear...
...local churchyard to sob the age-old Sardinian funeral lament of one Antonio Francesco Manca, 48, a goatherd by trade and the father of four children. By ancient tradition, his death notice was posted in the village streets, "killed by an unknown hand and unexpectedly taken from his dear ones . . ." Why? Nobody knew, except that Antonio was No. 13 on the list...
...morning in 1878 President Eliot found a letter on his desk from one Arthur Gilman, a Cambridge historian. "Dear Sir," Mr. Gilman wrote, "I am engaged in perfecting a plan which shall afford women opportunites for carrying their studies forward further than it is possible for them, to do in this country . . ." Eliot agreed that Gilman had a worthy idea, and the Annex was soon to be in operation...
...domestic variety. The Sales Manager of a large chemical company wrote to the "Harvard Entomology Department" asking them to raise a few live silkworms. The letter finally reached Williams, and he handed it on to Walcott, who answered it and in due course received a reply beginning, "Dear Dr. Walcott...