Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inordinately fond of Radcliffe," Mrs. Gilbert declared last night, "and will do what I can for the college to make it possible for Mrs. Bunting to fulfill a major job for the country...
...officer to become Chief of Naval Operations one day. "Hell," says one, "you could tell that when he was still at the academy." Assigned to the Pentagon in late 1960, Moorer sometimes exasperated Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his computer-minded whiz kids (whom he was fond of calling "the numbers-racket people"), and sometimes confronted them with analogies like this: "Arnold Palmer played golf the other day. In terms of your weapons-analysis system, he used his 5 iron three times, his driver 18 times and his putter 38 times. Well, according to your system, if he wants...
Businessman Marton, who looks like a Slavonic William Holden, learned many of his economic lessons in seven trips to the U.S., and is fond of repeating such familiar free enterprise lines as "The customer is always right" and "We have to grow or die." He particularly believes the latter, and has just embarked on an ambitious plan that aims at nothing less than converting Sljeme into, as he puts it, "a Yugoslav combination of Howard Johnson's, Safeway and Swift, with a little Conrad Hilton thrown in." Marton intends to spend $50 million by 1970 to build restaurants, motels...
...lived in a huge baronial mansion on New Haven's best street, had an estate in the New Hampshire hills consisting of a great central house and several flanking cottages to take care of the subfamilies involved. Cheever spent long weeks at both places, found a crackling and fond relation with old Dr. Winternitz, a man of astounding energy. In some curious way, immersion in the Winternitz family released Cheever from a kind of writer's block that he had had about his own strained childhood, and led him eventually back to the Wapshots of St. Botolphs. True...
While taking peyote, Weston started having homo-sexual fantasies, which, after he quit the drug, disappeared. "But I am very glad that I had this experience for it has taught me to understand homosexuals a little better. It has also taught me why Freud was so fond of quoting the old proverb, 'Nothing human is alien to me.' "Before Weston finishes, he manages to construe a few more turgid moralisms for readers in the "square world...