Word: fond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school. When doctors found nothing wrong, he thought of more excuses -a big police dog threatening him on the way to school, bullying by bigger boys, an unfriendly teacher. The dangerous dog turned out to be a galumphing puppy, nobody was bullying Fred, and his teacher was genuinely fond of him. She suggested that Fred's mother take him to Boston's Judge Baker Guidance Center...
Irresistible. In London, arrested for pinching a geranium from a windowbox while delivering mail, Postman Frederick Johnson was fined 10 shillings ($1.40) after telling the judge, "I am very fond of flowers and in a moment of temptation I took...
...face covered, and under such circumstances the girl's mother said her daughter would call anyone "the bad man who did it." It was clearly Reporter Bernice Freeman's week. Said she: "This has been the most exciting week of my life. But I still am very fond of George...
...Chips, the story opens with the hero well on in years and quietly resigned to his own mediocrity. Charles Anderson has the rank of a first secretary in the British Foreign Service and the fate of an also-ran in life. He is a bit stuffy, oldfashioned, well-liked, fond of making mildly witty remarks and coated with "a thin crust of mannerism." At the beginning of Chapter Two comes the flashback. Charles is seen as a boy, at Brookfield, where his master is the original Mr. Chips, called back for a brief return engagement. Author Hilton leads Charles through...
...first day. Before the week ended, the price was back up to 28?, but coppermen felt that this was only a short reprieve. Britain has not yet begun to sell copper from its null stockpile, and Chile, which has kept 65,000 tons off the market in fond hopes of getting 36? a Ib., now is anxiously ready to sell at the world price. In the U.S., copper futures contracts have already fallen as low as 26? a Ib. (pre-Korea copper sold...