Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American woman's fight for equality under the law began even as the Continental Congress was hammering the nation into shape. "My dear John," Abigail Adams wrote to her influential husband: "In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would Remember the Ladies. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention are not paid to the Ladies, we are determined to foment a Rebellion." "Depend upon it," John Adams replied with kindly condescension, "We know better than to repeal our Masculine...
...Dear Mr. Steele...
...Dear Dr. Foster...
...Dole's perseverance and loyalty are beginning to pay off. Nixon, recognizing Dole's efforts on his behalf, has sent him several "Dear Bob" letters to express his appreciation. His Republican Senate colleagues are considering a greater-and, for a first-term Senator, almost unprecedented -reward. As impressed with Dole's aggressiveness as they are dissatisfied with Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's frequent failure to back up the Administration, G.O.P. conservatives are quietly maneuvering to oust Scott and give the senior position to Freshman Dole...
...angry letter-and possibly the last manuscript from the pen of Mark Twain. He died six months after writing it in 1909 to a fellow author and dear friend, William Dean Howells. In the letter, Twain complained at incredible length-some 400 pages-of how he had been bilked by two employees, one of them a secretary with the power to cash her boss's checks. The letter, discovered by a niece of Twain's wife, was sold for more than $25,000 last week to the New York Public Library...