Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy's fondest hope is to spark a real religious revival in the U.S., and if any one person can do it, he is a likely candidate. He can prophesy: "The greatest sin of America is our disregard of God . . . God has allowed evil nations to be destroyed by other wicked nations . . . God may allow Russia to destroy America. Russia will get it in the end, but she may destroy America ... It may take persecution and humiliation to bring America to God . . . There's nothing wrong with being rich, but we're using so much...
...thousands of loyal and devoted Amherst alumni these week-end occasions, which have evolved out of the founding of the first fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, as a literary organization in the 1830's, house their fondest memories. The chance outsider welcomed into the Spring House Party--more sophisticated and relaxed than Dartmouth's Winter Carnival--is apt to come away with the impression that the average Amherst man is such a polished week-ender, he could not do anything else half so well. Actually, this is not the case...
...stock market, which started to rise. Not till October was there any significant slackening in the steady rise of production; then it began to edge downward as the makers of autos, appliances, refrigerators, etc., began to trim their output, which in most cases had already exceeded their fondest hopes for the full year. Those who had feared that any step down from boom heights would mean a disastrous fall were proved wrong; the steps were orderly and gradual. Although prices officially showed little change, the shrewd buyer of autos and other hard goods could almost quote his own price, sometimes...
Thus Bullitt had dashed the fondest dream of every undergraduate to step in the ring with a member of the faculty. Or would it have been a nightmare in this case? Yes, it probably would have; Bullitt, one of Lamar's prize pupils, was the New England Amateud Lightweight Champion back in 1943, and he numbered the National Golden Gloves titlist among his victims...
...thing who is actually in love with an untitled poet. Everybody else in the story is in love with somebody else, including the wife, who is really alive but disguised as a lady gardener in order to win back her count. Most everyone in the Goldovsky version gets his fondest wish...