Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Catherine Welles '43, who likes to be called "M. C." (Betty Jane llikes to be called "B. J." and on one knows why), wasn't too fond of co-ed classes, pointing out that boys meant frequent lipstick applications, and "that's sort of tiresome." None of the three interviewed by Radcliffe's Kilte McGrath really went for co-ed classes...
What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry" were fond of a song praising goober peas ("Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!"); while the inconsequential battle hymn of the South became...
With WPB's fond blessing, Standard is now scheduled to produce by next spring 132,000 tons of butyl instead of the 60,000 tons originally planned. Since test runs have recently proved that butyl will make a light-duty tire good for at least 16,000 miles at 40 m.p.h. or less, the 72,000 extra tons of butyl will give the U.S. more than 12,000,000 serviceable tires (8% of the tires now on U.S. passenger cars) over & above what it had previously had any reason to hope...
Kiddies of Caracas used to listen on the radio with bated breath to "Tío Timoteo" (Uncle Tim), wondering how he knew that little Juan Bimba's birthday present was under the sofa and that Babita was not eating enough cereal. He knew, of course, because fond parents wrote in and asked...
Dismissing the fond notion that the Third Reich can easily be starved into submission, the picture aptly illuminates the Nazis' use of food to control their conquered peoples. In stricken cities food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...