Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't it a long, fond wake the widow held? After Irish Playwright Brendan Behan died of "the gargle" two years ago, Beatrice Behan, 40, told Redbook in Dublin, "I spent a few months drinking around in the pubs where they knew him." After a while, said Beatrice, "I felt his personality slipping under my skin.. I imagined that everyone loved me, and I even sang those dreary I.R.A. songs that Brendan used to sing. But then I realized I was not being natural, so I drink but little now." Still, considering the mourning after, the great gargler...
...Corps center in nearby Pleasanton. To Center Director Steve Uslan, Painter is "uniquely suited" to his job. "His ability to draw kids out of their shells is quite remarkable." The happy father thought it was time to bring his son home. By then, though, the Bannisters had grown deeply fond of Mark; they resisted all requests for his return. Last June the Painters tried to retrieve the boy at his school in Ames. After being rebuffed by school officials, they filed a writ of habeas corpus in the county district court, which ordered that Mark be sent back...
...than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...
...point during the party, O'Brien launched into a general discussion of American foreign policy, which he is none to fond of. He said that when a civil war breaks out, the U.S. steps in, finds the nearest general, and says he's a neutralist general...
Author Bishop, a California freelance writer, cheerfully admits that his only credential as a liquor authority is a long and fond acquaintance with the stuff. Apparently, he also set out to touch off a Donnybrook in any roomful of serious or discriminating drinkers. For example, he argues that most drinkers are kidding themselves when they claim that they can taste the difference between competing brands of liquor. Moreover, though most people can taste the difference between Scotch and bourbon on the first drink, Bishop claims that most bourbon drinkers cannot distinguish between different types of bourbon (straight, charcoal-filtered, sour...