Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laughed the President of the U.S.: "If you don't I'll be bombarding you with letters." Moments later, after fond farewells, the President's car drove slowly from Balmoral's grounds...
...court records show a sorry existence, the paintings a radiant one. Hals's life was both. He fathered 14 children, often went cold and hungry with his brood, died penniless (in 1666) at the age of 86. In good times he would march off to the club, being fond of music, beer and jolly company. His canvases show mainly sunny people, as if reflected in the elbow-polished wood of a tavern table...
...handsome Luis Dominguin, 33, the sometime international playboy whose cool style can crackle with showmanship, and boyish Antonio Ordoñez, whose classic passes flare with the brilliance that fires aficionados into ecstasy. Each is a millionaire, but each cares more for his craft than cash. And each is fond of holding up a forefinger, smiling faintly and declaring: "Yo, el primero...
...dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes have taken place. A Greek restaurateur, sexually disturbed because his fat wife is not Jean Harlow, has begun to look upon her with fond normalcy. Jasper's half-illiterate old man, a skirt chaser and Homeric hell raiser in his bachelorhood, experiences a blinding illumination and begins to sound as if he had attended one of Author Warren's courses at Yale. Isaac himself realizes that he is damned to well-paid...
...replant it on the head of a pin. Until White recently got hold of one of the Cornell library's two surviving copies, he had not laid eyes on the book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face of my professor, his short hair . . . combed down over his forehead, his eyes blinking incessantly behind steel-rimmed spectacles as though he had just emerged into strong light, his lips nibbling each other like nervous horses...