Word: fond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARSHALL : "... A very fine character, and I was really fond of him. The question of his handling of the situation . . . was another matter...
...also talked a little about music: "I am very fond of light opera ... I can't say that I can go to a 'high-hat' opera . . . and enjoy it all. But there is usually one aria . . . that is worth listening to. Most of the rest of opera music is boring...
...lunched often with Walter L. Dunham, the former RFC director, whom he was said to have influenced? Yes, but "there was nothing at all unusual in it. I was genuinely fond of him. He thought he could learn something from...
...usually looked like an unmade bed and stalked about with a fond pack of dogs at his heels. He was Washington's second-in-command, but the commander in chief never warmed to his quirky personality. It was Washington who stormed up to Lee at the battle of Monmouth, accused him of making an unnecessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat.† and made the charge substantially stick in a court-martial. Thirty months after the Adams accolade, Lee was suspended from the army and later died in disgrace...
...country's dahirs (laws), he has no administrative or military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional history and books about the past glories of Morocco...