Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was something for every taste-Bronze Age jewelry, Persian miniatures, African masks, Dresden porcelain, drawings by the top Renaissance masters. But it was not the art that brought the public streaming in. The objects were the museum's most painful mistakes: fakes that had cost the museum dear in pounds and embarrassment...
...Tools. His message eschewed the massive pump-priming plans and public-works projects dear to some economists, stressed instead the expansion of existing programs. He urged Congress to boost minimum social security benefits (from $33 a month to $43), lift the minimum wage (from $1 an hour to $1.15 immediately, then to $1.25 within two years), stretch out unemployment compensation payments, and pass a depressed-areas bill. Said House Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck of those proposals: "We find no great quarrel with them, but we do not find them earthshaking...
...caution. His puns ("A fete worse than death") are outrageous. His hyperbole ("Carpets of so thick a nap that midgets would get lost in them and have to be rescued by dogs") is ingenious. His clichés ("The shot's not on the board, old dear") click with an exquisite remoteness in the modern ear, like ghostly billiard balls in country houses far away and long...
Another delusion is that of unilateral disarmament and Gandhi-like nonviolence. Hungary 1956, Jaspers makes clear, is the way Russia would have dealt with Gandhi. World government is an abstraction dear to many, but Jaspers insists that it could only be established by conquest and maintained by despotism. Harshly he calls the U.N. "a basic untruth." Its executive power depends "not on the United Nations but solely on the policies of the sovereign powers...
...wrote, "Dear Eugenie, I'm sorry I haven't written in so long, but I've been awfully busy with finals and everything. But don't think I've forgotten you. I may have a bad memory, but it's not that...