Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fond sort of mother's reverse intimacy, UPI shared by Rose Kennedy (sec above) but not by U.S. voters, who know their favorites as Dick and Jack...
...forced to marry Don Manuel Godoy, a shrewd provincial nobody whose seductive charms eventually made him lover to the Queen, favorite to the King, Duke of Alcudia and later Sueca, Prince of the Peace, Prime Minister-and the most hated man in Spain. The King was so fond of Godoy that he wanted him to be part of the family, and Godoy himself languidly wrote of his marriage: "I obeyed in this, as in all the acts of my life, with loyalty and submission." But what was merely a bore to the favorite was torture to his wife...
...satirist who more than half loved the subjects of his satire, an observer with a fond but unforgiving eye for detail, he left a record of American life that criticized without insisting on condemnation and entertained without stooping to farce. Above all, he found individuality where only conformity was supposed to exist and gave the reader a feeling not only of recognizing but of understanding himself...
...their first herculean hit (Oklahoma!). Composer Richard Rodgers, 58, abandoning memorable music for heartfelt words in the New York Times Magazine, saluted his friend and partner, Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, on the eve of Hammerstein's 68th birthday this week. Their mutual affection is largely unspoken: "Oscar is fond of me-very fond, I think-as a man, and yet he has never even hinted vaguely at this. On the other hand, he's gone before the entire country on television and told everybody what a great person I was.'' Still, prying interviewers often ask what...
...recoil from "any program that will seriously annoy the Church of England, the Royal Family, the three services, the British Medical Association or the Law Society." It enjoyed a monopoly in British radio broadcasting for 33 years, during which its Oxford-accented air of uplift earned the BBC the fond, but not too fond, nickname "Auntie." Five years ago, along came commercial TV. The Tory government created the privately owned Independent Television Authority to give Auntie competition. With a zest for controversy and no qualms about serving up popular fare (much of it made in America), ITV quickly grabbed...