Word: fondly
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...Britons doubted that understatement, they had only to consider the case of Michael Connock. A correspondent specializing in Eastern Europe for London's Financial Times, he met a married Polish woman on a trip in 1966, and on subsequent visits, in his words, "we became very fond of each other." Last month, when Connock returned to Poland, security agents picked him up, told him "you break up families," and warned that he might be permanently expelled from the country. They asked Connock to help identify British agents in Poland; he signed a statement of cooperation, then reported the whole...
More than most heads of state, Charles de Gaulle is fond of the conspiratorial theory of human events. Last week, when 2,500,000 French workers walked off their jobs after the collapse of wage talks between unions and the government, he went on TV and condemned the strikers as "agitators" and "plotters" whose tactics "threaten to sink the currency, the economy and the republic." De Gaulle told France: "Need I declare that they will all be defended?" He had good reason to fear any thing resembling the massive strikes that caused chaos in France last spring...
There's a story, probably apocryphal, that I'm fond of about the great mathematician Hilbert. He was attending a conference in Copenhagen, and they took him to see the very celebrated bridge they have there. He admired it duly and then said, "It's astonishing! Wonderful! It's Exactly like the bridge at Hamburg." At which the local Danes, his hosts, were much affronted because there's no bridge at all like that in Hamburg. They said, "How is it like a bridge at Hamburg?" Hilbert answered, "Why it goes from this side to that side and the river...
...With fond--recollections of the Bruno Sammartino-Shiek title match still titillating their memories, true Harvard sports afficienadoes are trouping to the IAB today for the first round of the intramural boxing tourney. Tuck a six-pack of Bud under your arm, steel yourself with your towniest "Kill de bum!", and join them. Next week, it's roller derby in Providence...
...financed secret research at universities. Circulation rose to a high of about 225,000. It has been losing some $20,000 an issue, partly because of its flashy, full-color format (says Hinckle: "I hate butcher paper"). A contributing reason was the fact that some of the staff grew fond of spending too freely...