Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grant to us for thy dear merit...
...corresponding with a Minnesota farmer who has written a fan letter to one of the studio's stars, and whose main problem is that he has a harelip and can rarely make himself understood. Writing in the name of the star, she carries on the correspondence for months: "Dear Sir: As I usually do not answer letters sent to me by fans, since I get (crossed out) receive thousands, I would appreciate your keeping this note confidential . . ." Finally they meet, understand how they have duped each other and themselves, and flee shrieking in opposite directions...
...Sunday) Mercouri, smashing her way through ranks of lesser spectators to get to Dior's Marc Bohan. "It was magnificent! Fantastic! Extraordinaire!" "No," said Bohan, pale but for the thousand carmine kiss marks on his cheeks, "I was not nervous, just a little worried." Said Mrs. Vreeland: "My dear, how really truly completely MARVELOUS...
...Flubber. Ladies and gentlemen, a deathly silence has fallen on the stadium now. Only eight seconds left in the last period, and dear old Medfield, trailing 37-35, has the ball on its own two-yard line, first down and 98 to go. The team comes out of the huddle, up to the line of-WHAT! They're trying a field goal! Are they nuts! Ha-Ha-Ha! Who ever heard of a 98-yard field goal! Ha! ha! -huh? The ball is sailing over the line of scrimmage, over the fifty-yard line, over the goal posts, over...
...Stanley I. Stuber, executive director of the Missouri Council of Churches and an unofficial observer at the Second Vatican Council last fall, reported that while in Rome he had "come to claim certain bishops, archbishops and cardinals as personal friends, even as dear brothers in Christ." He argued that when Rome itself is seeking to bring all Christians closer together, the time may have come for U.S. Protestants and Catholics to review "the whole matter of public school education." This is about as far as ecumenicism got. Stuber urged Catholic bishops to accept "the spirit and purpose of Pope John...