Word: fonder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Absence had not made the congressional heart any fonder of the Carter energy program. The more members scrutinized it, the less they seemed to like it. Flaws were beginning to show through the rhetoric. Especially vulnerable was the $88 billion synthetic fuel plan. The House had already passed a much reduced version of the President's ambitious proposal, and Senator Scoop Jackson, chairman of the Energy Committee, was readying a bill of his own. "We want to get a real beginning on synthetic fuels," Jackson said. "There's a coalition forming of strong fiscal conservatives who say this...
...main things money provides is privacy," Paul says, and everyone talks, as Bunny does, of his imperial remoteness. "The people who are fond of Paul are much fonder of him than he is of them," says one of his closest friends sadly. A poem he wrote 50 years ago in the Yale Lit offers perhaps the best clue to his character...
Skinny Kid. Carew is fonder of the Medal of Honor given to him by his native Panama. Says he proudly: "I'm the only athlete ever to have won it." The feeling reveals something of his deep and continuing attachment to his Latin background. Although he has now lived in the U.S. longer than in Panama, he has not sought American citizenship. Asked by a reporter what it would be like to be an American folk hero, he replied with some astonishment: "I'm a Panamanian citizen. How can I be an American folk hero?" He explains...
...free nation in our homeland." The celebration of Israel's independence is marred by continued strife in the Middle East. Although peace in that troubled region appears to be as remote a prospect as ever, some political signals have of late been encouraging. There can be no fonder prayer for Israel in its 30th year than one for a full, final and just peace among the opposing parties--the Arab sates, Israel and the Palestinian people...
Hidden in the back of his mind, however, Stash has an even fonder dream of how he would like to spend the rest of his life. He would like to use skating as therapy for children with poor study attitudes...