Word: fond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many people mourn? Why do so many mourn her still? Was it because when the heroine of a fairy tale perishes, something dies in us as well? Diana shared with many people the fond if naive belief that the perfectibility of the family--making it stable, firm, happy--would help save humankind. Her father and mother had failed miserably at family. She did not intend to. But she stumbled into the very nightmare she sought to avoid and became the spectacular mirror for other people's disappointments: the most splendid of cautionary tales. In the monumental ruin of Diana...
While Harvard has never faced South Carolina or Wofford before this year, uncertainty should not reduce the Crimson's intensity. Harvard is determined to sweep its games in December, and Feaster surely wants her teammates to return to Cambridge with fond memories of her home state...
...Stratocaster slung over his shoulder, launched into his classic, "Maggie's Farm," the thick, biting sound of the band immediately announced to the audience that this concert was not going to be a swan song for an artist past his prime, no nostalgia trip for those wishing to rekindle fond memories of the 60s. Much of the audience knew the songs by heart and cheered wildly when they recognized them, and each rendition stood...
...Nazis' plunder of art was carried out on the express instructions of Adolf Hitler, a failed art student and amateur watercolorist before he turned to mass murder. Fond of Old Masters, Hitler dreamed of building a huge stock of cultural masterpieces in the Reich. Hermann Goring, head of the Luftwaffe and later Hitler's right-hand man, eventually assembled one of the largest private art collections in Europe. Many of those works were confiscated from Jews...
...Williams (Kevin Spacey) deals in antiques and other old secrets, with a suavity that beguiles the gentry. When he kills a young punk who was his lover, Williams loses a few friends but attracts the attention of a Yankee journalist (John Cusack) who becomes his fond, skeptical biographer...