Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
...amusing and more than half-convincing theme of Author Durrell's book seems to be that, in certain vital respects, Marxism has not altered the Balkans from the dear old musical-comedy days, when their wars were fought by Chocolate Soldiers and their diplomats were outmaneuvered by Merry Widows...
...Dear Mr. Auer...
...individuals with bright paint daubed on their faces begin to circle the stagecoach on horseback, uttering unmannerly cries in a foreign language. Outraged, he orders the carriage to halt, stomps out to give the Indian chief-whom quite by accident he disarms and captures-a severe dressing down. "My dear fellow, this coach was traveling at a legal rate of speed on a public highway. If you don't desist, I shall protest to the authorities." The chief, grateful for his life, calls off his braves...
...Dear old, bloody old England Of telegraph poles...