Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious flaw in the new procedure. If the astronauts and the Apollo craft are indeed harboring alien organisms, the bugs could escape into the air when the hatch is opened, or be washed into the ocean while the astronauts are donning their biological suits. If the organisms are fond of oxygen or nitrogen-or thrive in salt water -they could begin to spread and multiply. Most scientists agree that the chances of life on the moon are remote, and some believe that any moon organisms would have reached the earth long ago on particles ejected from the moon during meteor...
...world, and leave but just two, man and woman, and we'll fill up the whole globe once more and win our triumph!" In this novel, Maclnnes is more than a mugs' guide to a city and a race he loves and mourns. He is a fond pioneer explorer of the almost reachless gap between the races, and what manner of reconciliation may be possible...
...Georges Pompidou is destined to become France's next husband, the marriage will be a far cry from its mystical union with De Gaulle. "Life must be allowed to come to you," he is fond of saying, and in his 57 years life has come well and often to Pompidou. Brilliant, somewhat bohemian, and always radiating bonhomie, he has succeeded in whatever he tried, including four distinctly diverse careers. To French politics he has brought the cultivation of a classics scholar (including 10,000 lines of French poetry that he can quote from memory), the logic of a legal expert...
...French response to De Gaulle was strongly emotional, but the French are, au fond, a pre-eminently reasonable rather than sentimental people. So long as there seemed a plausible correlation between De Gaulle's aims and France's means, the fervor for the Cross of Lorraine held firm. But the moment De Gaulle got beyond what French common sense thought to be feasible, he began to gradually lose his constituency until finally it was gone...
...still lives there. Cotton brought Mexican artisans to lay the tile floors and build furniture and thick, wood-pegged doors. The house encloses a warm, sheltered patio with a fountain, outdoor fireplace, lawn and shrubbery. All five bedrooms open on the patio. Nixon likes seclusion and is especially fond of a semicircular library, reachable only from an outside stairway. Wide living room windows overlook the ocean...