Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THAT DEAR...
...dinner party in Austin, when Johnson phoned him. "Homer," said the President am going to nominate you for the Supreme Court." Replied the overwhelmed Thornberry: "I hope I can deserve this confidence." Homer's wife Eloise was more down to earth. Said she of the President: "That dear...
...hustings, Pompidou plugged the Gaullist theme that France must polarize or perish. Campaigning in his bleak, mountainous home region of Cantal, he explained: "The choice is simple, dear friends. It must be made between totalitarian Communism and liberty and democracy." Meanwhile, all across France, Gaullist campaign workers sought to rekindle the revulsion that the average Frenchman felt toward the June violence by showing a specially prepared 30-minute film of the rioting on the Left Bank. In city after city, some 8,000 student volunteers, who call themselves "Youth for Progress," worked frantically for De Gaulle, painting Gaullist slogans...
...conventional chronology is matched to the action in reverse chronology (he tells about graduating from school into the world while the camera shows him emerging backwards from jail). There are also double meanings in reverse-order conversation ("Such sad-looking fish," says wife to lover. "You are too, my dear," says lover. "The weather is beautiful," says wife). Finally, Happy End has double meanings in reverse action; in his first meeting with his faithless wife, she jumps into his arms from a burning building, but he seems to be throwing her into the flames...
...learn on his return that one of his senior officials had been removed without his consent by Leonard H. Marks, director of the parent United States Information Agency. Daly abruptly announced that he would quit the next day. In reply, Marks struck a regretful note in a warm "Dear lohn" letter, praising Daly for his "dedication and adherence to the highest standards of program integrity...