Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could Volta Redonda compete with foreign steel? "Right now," said Soares, "we may need some kind of tariff protection. But in three years, when new ovens and converters are in operation and we are going full blast, we can compete in Brazil with foreign importations." Soares even has fond hopes of some day selling alloy steels abroad. "Volta Redonda," he says, "is the product of the collective will that will overcome all obstacles...
Between junkets Monty endured the full rigors of official Washington. Monty looked distressed at a Pentagon press conference when the New York Daily News's snippety-snappety Ruth Montgomery asked if he really had an aversion to "women. "Oh, I'm very fond of the ladies," he retorted with a chuckle. On the south lawn of the White House he joshed with the President over the burning of the Executive Mansion by the British in 1814. Said Monty: "I'm really very sorry about it. I think we ought to pay for it. ... Or perhaps you might...
Song of Norway--at the Opera House--Another relic, this one not quite so worthwhile unless your'e particularly fond of Grieg's music...
...much of his own experiences went into The Hucksters, currently soaring past 750,000 copies, was anybody's guess. Although Wakeman insisted that his fantastic, domineering Evan Evans was a fictional "composite," the resemblances to George Hill seemed more than coincidental. Like Evans, Mr. Hill is fond of wearing a hat in his office. His alltime Hit Parade favorite is a slam-bang version of Over There (a tune which delighted Mr. Evans). Like Mr. Evans, whose slogan was "Love that Soap," Hill believes in irritating and ear-shattering repetition. Some American Tobacco plugs: "Herbert Tareyton is back...
Benito Mussolini's wife & daughter, granted amnesty by the new Italian Republic, were now technically on the loose. But they were in no hurry to go anywhere. Daughter Edda Mussolini Ciano, who had grown fond of her "haven" on Lipari Island, hoped for a passport to Argentina, meanwhile talked about moving to Lucca instead of to her husband's native Leghorn, which might prove to be "too hot for the Ciano family." Donna Rachele Mussolini, Benito's widow, stayed right where she was-on the island of Ischia...