Word: dears
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Among the selections scheduled for the concert are "These Foolish Things," "Dear Old Stockholm," "Embraceable You," and "Paper Moon...
...Size. Somewhere in the byplay New Jersey's fat (330 Ibs.), jolly T. James Tumulty was needled with the gentle observation that he straddles too many fences. "My dear man," replied Democrat Tumulty. "I am so large I could represent all sections.'' Twitted Pennsylvania's Republican Jim Fulton: "The gap between the front and back of this Democratic Party is just big enough for you to fill...
Following Gandhi cost Nehru dear. He spent 14 years in British prisons. His wife Kamala and his father, both of whom joined the independence movement under his influence, died after repeated imprisonments. Nonetheless, it was the fight for independence that focused Nehru's talents and made him a man of destiny. Through it, he discovered peasant India and the fact that, somehow or other, he could manipulate its soul. And it was primarily for this skill that Gandhi, who may have been a saint but was above all a shrewd politician, named Nehru heir to the leadership of India...
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Rising production and material betterment are not the primary goals of Socialism, argue the new theorists. "Socialism," they assert, echoing a saying dear to Hugh Gaitskell, "is about equality" and equality is a state "in which people, no longer divided by barriers of privilege, can be conscious of their common humanity." Apparently content with this vague definition of Socialism's goal, the theorists never bother to define equality at all but concentrate instead on denouncing what they consider the two chief causes of inequality in Britain-unequal educational advantages and unequal distribution of wealth. Towards Equality makes a routine...