Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stadium, Russin turned into the gate marked "press and photographers only," and I went to follow. Wishful thinking. Susan grabbed my arm. "This gate, dear," she said cheerily. Under the stands we ran into one of her friends, similarly bundled up. They exchanged raucous greetings. Her friend's date stared dumbly at the two of them and took another bite of his hot dog. We exchanged shrugs, unsmilingly...
...Manchurian Candidate. On a dais in a shabby-genteel parlor down in Dixie, an exquisite little old lady stands and twitters to the Garden Club on a subject dear to her heart: "Fun with Hydrangeas." But gracious, what is the little old lady saying...
...read over all suicides, to avoid subjective judgment on whether or not they were sinful. Two key phrases would be left out of the suicide burial service. One is, "forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed." The other is, "in sure and certain hope of resurrection" -on grounds that a suicide is by definition incapable of earthly repentance...
...longs to be a member of humanity, and one day he discovers the only place where he is accepted by other people: in a cemetery. After that, Gigot never misses a funeral. He stands at the graveside, shoulder to shoulder with the mourners, and weeps a hatful for the dear departed. What a pity, he thinks, that he had to die-I wonder...
Moved to action by the severest shock a writer can sustain-a friend two years younger announces that his own novel is to be published-Brendan finds a solution. He imports his dear old mother from Belfast to look after the two children, puts his wife to work, quits the magazine, and dusts off his old manuscript. The novel goes well (the reader is never told what it is about, and it may, indeed, be about a writer), but nothing else does. Mother Tierney cannot understand Brendan's wife, and is shocked by the paganism of his household...