Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, prosperity has made the national health insurance unpopular; status seekers are pained that the plan provides only ward hospitalization, restricts choice of doctors, and discourages prescribing such relatively nonessential medical delights as tranquilizers, of which Germans have become increasingly fond. "Why should I sit around all day in the waiting room of a second-rate doctor with all those grubby mineworkers or street cleaners or whatever they are?" says a pretty Bonn secretary. "I can afford better...
...thinks that Of Human Bondage-which opens in March, starring him with Kim Novak-should be released on Thanksgiving Day: "That's when everybody has turkeys. Kim is a very attractive girl. But why does she try to act? I'm very fond...
...been for my interest in music, I'd probably have ended in a life of crime." I stopped short on that sentence, remembering another TIME story, shortly before, that reported a murderer shot down in Chicago in a gun battle with the police who said: "I always been fond of music. Maybe if I'd been any good at it, I'd have done it that way instead." By about 3 a.m. the next morning, I'd written a short story about an encounter between a pop singer and a criminal on the run, which later...
...Bitterness. Few men are giants to their contemporaries, and while Drury was generally fond of his Senators, he also saw their political wens and warts. Yet it is also true that the Senators of that not-so-long-ago era seemed to walk with a longer stride, to orate with a greater flourish, and to politick with greater passion than their well-barbered successors of today...
...first love was music. Even today, at 69, Julius Bissier plays the cello and loves chamber music. And the tiny, delicate paintings that he creates, small magical incantations of color, are in his fond word "songs...