Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story about the rugged little frontier farmer who tilled his fields from dawn to dusk and helped make America safe for democracy holds a fond place in most of our hearts. As America grew bigger and richer, the story continues, so did the farms, and the farmers. It is today's conventional wisdom that farmers wear gray flannel overalls and take care of their farms with three or four gleaming machines...
...Fond Memories. By his own count, Hardy made three mistakes in Notre Dame's opening game against California. If so, the beleaguered Bears missed them. What they saw was Hardy hurdling blockers to dump Cal's quarterback for a 16 yd. loss, intercepting one pass and smashing down two others as Notre Dame romped to a 41-8 victory...
...completed 29 out of 63 passes last week) and End Jim Seymour (who caught eight for 114 yds.), Kevin Hardy is a stick-out. It is not just because he is the biggest man on the team and is missing two front teeth, but more because he calls up fond memories of the days when giants roamed the Irish loam. Notre Dame's athletic director, Edward ("Moose") Krause calls Hardy "one of the greatest athletes we've ever had here"-no mean compliment considering that Notre Dame has produced the likes of Knute Rockne, Johnny Lujack...
...hate to be the kind of guy who upsets anybody's fond hopes, but this is one of those times when a sports-writer just has to be brave...
President Johnson is said to be fond of relating the experience of an out-of-work school teacher who applied for a position in a small town on the Texas plains at the very depths of the depression. After a series of questions one puckered rancher on the school board looked at him and asked, did he teach that the world was round or that the world was flat. Finding no clues in the faces of the other members of the board, the teacher swallowed hard and allowed he could teach it either...