Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secretary, and Pierre soon became an institution of his own. There was Pierre aboard the Honey Fitz in slacks of shocking pink; Pierre in blue and yellow shorts, chugging over the decorous grass tennis courts of Newport; Pierre flailing away on the Hyannis golf course while Kennedy watched in fond amusement; Pierre playing poker, sometimes at $1,000 a pot, with three wild cards; Pierre nursing his discriminating palate with fine wines and rich sauces at Washington's smart Le Bistro...
...Friar victory dashed Harvard's fond dream for 1964--an undefeated season...
...does not "endorse") the Republican ticket "from top to bottom." He never, however, mentions the word "Goldwater" in public, nor will he say who will receive his vote for the Presidency of the United States. He undoubtedly expects Johnson to win, and he is concerned, as he is fond of saying, with state problems--especially that of getting himself re-elected...
...more concerned with proving an intellectual thesis than with pumping the whole blood of the dramatic imagination into characters that command the stage. They merely mouth the playwright's favorite thoughts. Life corrupts. A man's memory is a history of petty and monstrous crimes, of fond illusions lost. Only a man without a past, Anouilh seems to be saying, is free of the past...
...talkily belabors: to be robbed of the worst, or the best, past is not a theft but a gift. Anouilh further argues, without his later agile irony and cogent wit, that a man can indeed escape his past, which suggests that the young playwright still harbored at least one fond and vastly foolish illusion...