Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandfather clock (he daily trudges up and down the 78 steps leading to his house on a hillside), Adenauer was absorbed in readying his campaign to preside in Bonn for four more years. Mindful of his twelve years of hostile uselessness under the Nazis, Dr. Adenauer is fond of saying: "I have already had my retirement...
...brilliant lad," recalled Admiral Brown, "and, in spite of, or, if you will, perhaps because of his handicap, deeply appealing." Queen Frederika grew fond of the boy while the Peurifoys were stationed in Greece, and often asked him for long visits to the royal palace in Athens. During these visits young Clinton Peurifoy played freely with Queen Frederika's two children. One day Prince Constantine said to his little American friend: "My sister and I have been talking about you, and we have decided that you must be the favorite pupil of Jesus...
...Long Voyage Home. In Fond du Lac, Wis., Detective Pat Cotter bagged a drunk, made out a report: "He is not drunk, who from the floor can rise again and take one more. Man could not rise again and, although he had a bottle with a little left in it, he just could not get his hands off the sidewalk to get at it. After carefully noting all the facts in the case, I assumed he must be drunk and arrested him. He still had eight miles to travel home on his hands and knees...
Once a promising Dodger farmhand, U.S.C. Alumnus Bill Sharman used to nurse fond dreams of big-league baseball. ("I'm the guy who was going to shove Snider out of center field," he remembers with a wry smile.) Now he knows that basketball is his game. He is so central to the Celtics' championship hopes that last week Coach Red Auerbach refused to tempt trouble by putting him back in uniform too soon for the four and five pounding miles of running required in a pro game. So Bill bided his time until the St. Louis Hawks invaded...
...twice, there is absolutely nothing worth reading in it. Despite diligent seeking over the years, one cannot find a more fruitful way to waste time than spending an afternoon with Robb Sagendorph '22 ("Upon this occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Lampoon, we must not forget in our fond reminiscing aobut the past, that the present and future are with us, too.") or Edward A. Bacon '20 ("What'll I do, what'll I do,/Now that Gretchen and I are through?") of Lewis P. Mansfield '16 ("We offer eighty years of skill/In putting Joy on Humor's sword...