Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the word reached the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Harry Truman signed an order to his ex-boss of steel, Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer. "Dear Mr. Secretary," wrote the President, "in view of today's decision by the Supreme Court, you are hereby directed to take appropriate steps to relinquish immediately possession of plants, facilities and other property . . . which have been in possession of the Government...
...country and the destruction of the Christian values implicit in our civilization and is met with public defamation, the eyebrow-raising of spiritual vagrants in and out of government, the supercilious superiority of guilt itself, and spiritual wickedness in high places; nevertheless, renouncing the things which men hold dear, wealth, position and prestige, and disregarding the statute of limitations in his own case, finally arouses the American people to their danger, and affirming anew against a background of indifference, lethargy and contempt the great truths of Christianity, is entitled, because of his white martyrdom of the spirit as a witness...
London club called "Churchill's" (no kin), and a fan letter addressed to her was mistakenly delivered to the old statesman. Churchill forwarded it with a note of his own: "My dear Miss Kitt, I presume that this extraordinary document was meant...
...Cyclops "Goggle-eyes" instead of "froward," transformed the "fair-tressed Dawn" into "welcome streaks of light." He restored some of Homer's humor by translating a few names literally (Acroneus, Ocyalus and Elatreus became Top-ship, Quicksea and Paddler), allowed his characters to say such things as "Daddy, dear . . ." or "Old fellow . . ." All in all, Rouse added quite a bit of spice to the mounting variety of Homer translations -as readers could see for themselves by comparing...
...Dear Mr. Trottenberg...