Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important. Remedial reading? Probably not. Elementary school science courses? Libraries? Guidance programs? It's like the old camp song, where the one guy rolls over, and the guy at the other end of the bed falls out. The MX missile rolls over; you can wish foreign language instruction a fond au revoir. The balanced budget rolls over; out the other side plops special education programs for disabled youngsters...
...Associates regarded him as brilliant-but austere, humorless and egotistical. "Medicine was his life," said Samm Sinclair Baker, who co-authored the book. But Tarnower also hunted big game in Africa, birds in the Carolinas and Newfoundland and went fly-fishing in Iceland and Scotland. Above ail, he was fond of giving small, elegant dinner parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained: "My cravings are not for Big Macs...
Despite Parnell's past, police feel that he did not sexually molest Timmy White; they are unlikely to prosecute Parnell for any sexual crimes involving Stayner, who insists that he was not mistreated. The boy clearly has conflicting thoughts about his captor. Police say that Stayner seemed fond of Parnell, who he said "spoiled" him. When Stayner finally left, he took along a dog named Queenie, a present from Parnell. Stayner was defensive about Parnell in his talks with police and reluctant at first to reveal his name. Yet Stayner also said that he had no desire...
...OVERWRITES frequently: one-sentence paragraphs dot the book. By the seventh or eighth time, they don't seem dramatic, just disconcerting. And she's far too fond of inserting quotations. Not quotations from contemporary sources--no one can object to those-but quotations drawn from the great literature of Western Europe. To cite Alexander Pope's description of the court of Charles II, written 50 years after Charles's death, is barely acceptable; quoting Dante on poverty to describe what Charles went through in years of exile is not. She has at least the grace to translate the Italian, which...
...woman, who loved not wisely but too well, both being married people, determined on running away...they were caught and brought back. The Amir, in ordering their punishment, said that, as the man was so fond of the woman, he should have her as completely as was possible. So the woman was thrown alive into a huge cauldron of boiling water, and boiled down to soup, and a basin of this soup was given to the man, who was forced to drink it, and after drinking it he was hanged. In this case the Amir's object was to punish...