Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father's Hope. Second daughter of a New York doctor who wanted a son to follow his profession, Elise Strang heard her father say of her: "This one will be my doctor." Dr. Strang died long before his daughter was ready for college, but she kept his fondest hope in mind. In 1896, at 16, she entered the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children...
...first EGA bill had been presented as a calculated and desperate risk; the second with an air of "you can't afford to quit now." Last week EC Administrator Paul Hoffman could point to a record of proud accomplishment. Western Europe's recovery "has exceeded our fondest hope," Hoffman told a joint congressional committee on foreign affairs. He asked just 'under $3 billion to keep EGA going on its winning way in its third year...
...Lieut. Colonel Paul Douglas was retired from active duty with a crippled arm that he will never fully use again and only the fondest recollections of the marines: "They don't hold it against you too much if you have made your living in intellectual pursuits. The Marine Corps loves eccentrics and I guess they thought I was something of a nut. So they gave me my chance...