Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aspiring salesmen buy The Magic Word; teen-age girls are particularly fond of The Sound of Beauty, which comes with a make-up kit. But for the all-round illiterate the new vistas are unlimited: Improve Your Etiquette; Plan the Perfect Dinner Party; Achieve Sexual Harmony in Marriage; Skin Dive; Tell Your Children the Facts of Life...
...publisher visited the camp and awoke one morning to find himself pinned to his cot by the lioness, who nibbled affectionately at his face. Den Mother Adamson was severe: "I gave her such a beating that she sulkily left the tent." By this time the reader has become as fond as the author of this literary lion, and it is a sad thing to read, on the last page, that there will be no more books about Elsa. She died of a blood disease early this year (TIME...
...Bottom. Abe Abrams has spent years living down a family nickname of "Tootsie," a fond reference to his cherubic babyhood back home in Springfield. Mass. Abrams was the oldest of three children born to Creighton Abrams Sr., a railroad hand on the Boston & Albany, and the former Nellie Randall, the daughter of an estate caretaker. When Abrams was a boy, the family settled in the rural area of nearby Feeding Hills. There Abrams raised baby beef, ran a trap line for skunk and muskrat, patched together a wheezing model T and learned to shoot by drilling holes with...
...these standard Federal aid headaches, the report has introduced a hot issue at the University in the matter of "unreimbursed costs." "In sufficient magnitudes, Federal grants can make a university poorer rather than richer by building up unreimbursed costs (overhead, etc.). More than one Faculty at Harvard has fond it necessary to limit its participation in desirable programs lest their indirect costs drain away its unrestricted income," says Cheever. The report has brought this problem up for debate among those in the community who ought to be concerned...
...Washington, although it eventually became quite fond of him, never understood Charlie Wilson-and Detroit's Wilson certainly never understood Washington. The Wilson remarks that would have passed for wry banter in a General Motors boardroom became mat ters of controversy in the capital's political climate. During the closed hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee on his confirmation, Wilson made a comment that was widely misquoted and was to dog him throughout his governmental years. According to the press, Wilson told the Senators: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." What...