Word: fond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rubens, who was fond of the picture himself, once described it more modestly in a letter offering it for sale to a 17th Century collector: "A Prometheus bound on Mount Caucasus; with an Eagle which pecks his liver. Original, by my hand, and the Eagle done by Snyders.* Nine feet high by eight feet wide." Rubens' asking price was also modest: 500 florins (about...
...make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope is that the vaccinations have cut tuberculosis morbidity* by four-fifths. Only time and a careful check on the health of a whole new generation will prove...
...leading U.S. woman essayist; in Philadelphia. A cat-loving, chain-smoking spinster, she began writing at 30. To U.S. readers, who never put much store by the polite, personal essay, she managed to convey the impression that she was from another country. But she acquired an audience that remained fond of her well-bred talent for taking graceful potshots at varied targets...
...reporters laughed, and Gabrielson, after thinking over his words, joined in. For Democrat McCarran, during his 18 years in the Senate, had been about as fond of New and Fair Deal medicines as Carrie Nation was of bourbon. Before the 1938 primaries, when F.D.R. himself went inland to have his say on candidates, he visited Nevada, but haughtily ignored McCarran's candidacy for renomination; McCarran had angrily fought too many New Deal measures. Shaggy Pat won anyway, went back to the Senate to cry out against aid to embattled France and Britain ("One American...
...subconscious, while I try to be as conscious as possible." Though he dotes on shoes to such an extent that they have become his trademark, Gugel insists that they have no Freudian implications for him. His grandfather, Gugel explains, was in the shoe business: "And I was always fond of grandfather...