Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear TIME-Reader...
...total world catastrophe-to scatter to the four winds, in a matter of seconds, the civilization it has taken man so many centuries to put together. No wonder some ask, "Are we not playing with things that belong to God?" The concerted, atheistic threat against all we hold dear has increased and grown bolder in the ratio that the hydrogen bomb has surpassed the rifle. We, in turn, must remain armed to the teeth to contain that threat...
...Premier Scelba likes good food and good wine, seldom smokes. Courteous, canasta-playing, flower-loving, he has a lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation. I cannot contravene the law. Scelba...
...said. At least, said Roosevelt, give Poland the oil province of Lvov (it lay east of the Curzon line, which the Allies of World War I had proposed as the fairest ethnic frontier between Poland and Russia). Churchill lifted the appeal to an oratorical height: "This is what is dear to the hearts of the nation of Britain . . . that Poland should be free and sovereign . . . mistress in her own house and in her own soul . . . [Our] interest is only one of honor...
...sophistication best confined to the perfume ads. The prince (Michael Wilding) no longer loves his lass just because she is beautiful. He admires her "great agonized . . . rebellious eyes." The glass slipper is now made of "the finest Venetian glass." And the fairy godmother (Estelle Winwood) is a queer old dear who wanders around saying "window sill" because it sounds so nice...