Word: fonder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mom found out about Sonny, she made Cher move into a Hollywood girls' residence, but absence finally made his heart grow fonder. They took up housekeeping again-nonplatonically. "When I met her she was 16 and a waif," says Sonny. "On the one hand, she was a very mature kid. She had dealt with life and men on an adult level-she skipped the teen-age stage. But on the other, she was also a very naive little girl...
...however, would like Andreski to analyze more of the social science principles his grandmother "knew." For example, my grandparents "knew" that "opposites attract" and that "birds of a feather flock together." In addition, they "knew" that "out of sight, out of mind" and that "absence makes the heart grow fonder...
Worn Welcome. Meanwhile, one of the fonder dreams of C. Jackson Grayson, chairman of the Price Commission, was realized with stunning speed. When he announced a 21% yardstick for price increases in November, Grayson said that he hoped that some prices would go down while others went up. Last week, after several days of unpublicized price fighting in the steel industry, U.S. Steel Corp. announced that it will reduce prices $5 to $25 a ton on several major products, including some that the company had been given permission by the Price Commission to increase. As a result, the price hike...