Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine clearly does not like poetry. It won't touch the stuff. Nor is it very fond of novels. Theoretically, it could cope with some of Hemingway's short, simple sentences, though it could never make anything of long, convoluted passages from Faulkner. But give the Toshiba AS-TRANSAC computer a thoroughly dull, straightforward instruction manual, and it will earnestly chomp its way through page after page. What it does with those pages is the amazing part. The Toshiba machine has linguistic ability far beyond the powers of past generations of computers: it can translate, at least crudely, one language...
Medvedev shows the dictator and his secret-police chief during the Great Terror as they sat for hours hunched over the lists of hundreds of names Stalin would okay for execution, one by one, before the working day ended. Stalin was fond of lavishing kindness on his friends, even as he meticulously planned their arrests, torture, trials and death. When one high official, I.A. . Akulov, received a near fatal concussion while skating, Stalin rushed foreign doctors to the U.S.S.R. to treat him. As soon as the skater recovered, Stalin had him shot...
...after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed Paramount Communications the day before he launched his bid for Time Inc. He is fond of exhorting his employees to "lead, follow...
...know that there are more than 350,000 species of beetles on earth (J.B.S. Haldane once observed that God "is inordinately fond of beetles"), and that there may be at least 1 million more that nobody has yet identified? Or that one species eats only roses and another only snails? Or that yet another can imitate the light of a female firefly so exactly that when a male firefly comes to mate, it gets eaten...
Disney wants you to discover the intricate craft of moviemaking without losing the moviegoer's fond suspension of disbelief. In its most elaborate attraction, The Great Movie Ride, spectators enter a reproduction of Hollywood's secular cathedral, the Chinese theater, where the Casablanca piano and Dorothy's ruby slippers repose under glass. Computerized mannequins portray such stars as James Cagney, Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. An Alien monster lurches and drools. For all its bustle, the ride refuses to enthrall. Even a beguiling stop in Munchkinland reminds the passengers that, however the technology of Disney rides has improved, the scope...