Word: fonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arizona used to feed on cantaloupes and honeydews; and why Sierra Blanca, Texas, receives 225 wet tons of New York City sludge each day. Listening to the routinely outsize tales of ordinary Americans with an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford, he suggests that distance makes the head grow fonder too. People who buy snakes in bottles of Jim Beam may, in fact, be closer than we know...
...mail box informing him of the large arms shipments arriving in the superintendent's office. He's tried to hide the slips, but I've seen them! He is growing a long beard and is starting to smoke unfiltered cigarettes. UNFILTERED!! Can you believe it? He is growing fonder and fonder of Marxist criticism-in fact, I think I overheard him making cracks about laissez-faire economic policies! What should I do?? --Worried in Winthrop...
...owned it for 40 years, and I've neverbeen fonder of anybody in all those years than Iwas of him," Davidson said. "This is such a shock.He was so considerate, such a wonderful worker, soconcerned with doing everything properly...
...public wearies of his visage in the first few years. "People get tired of seeing anybody on television," says a senior White House aide. So Bush stays on the margins of public consciousness, betting that in today's peculiar politics, as in romance, absence makes the heart grow fonder...