Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final irony could be that Torrijos, once fond of bandying about anti-American statements himself, may have to rely upon the American economic and military aid promised as part of the treaty package to fend off the radical threat. Torrijos has sent his National Guardsmen, many of them graduates of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas on Gatun Lake, on operations to hone their effectiveness against potential guerrillas. Last spring 1,000 guardsmen spent five days traversing the Isthmus. When they arrived in Colon, they were greeted by the cheers of the populace...
With so many genes busily at work, all would seem to be well with the author's warm-weather fiction. But Novelist Weldon is much too fond of the kind of ornateness that clutters Iris Murdoch's lesser novels-in this case, the ponderous idea that Hamish is Rumpelstiltskin and Elsa is the poor girl for whom he spins straw into gold. Gemma insists that Elsa do huge batches of typing each night. Elsa can't manage it, but Hamish...
...lives of individuals, casting his book into a nebulous category somewhere between literature, biography and history. Mee opens the book squarely in the middle of the "post-Watergate era" in the spring of 1975, by describing an encounter with a character clearly fitted to what doomsayers are fond of calling "post-Watergate morality." Mee's acquaintance Richard, who "looks like a million dollars before taxes," is a successful and influential man--a status the reader inevitably must link to the fact that he "moves in the worlds of politics and finance, of embezzlement, larceny and war, with uncommon ease." There...
...Club (at $9.25 a burger). He prefers to entertain at home, however, barbecuing steaks for Stamford visitors (mostly relatives and Times colleagues) and working wonders with vegetables. "I can't wait for Wednesday and all the recipes in Living." says the chef. "I was really fond of the artichoke recipes, but as soon as we started running them, artichokes disappeared from the market...
...professional sports, they usually settle into comfortable and lucrative careers as shaving-cream endorsers, insurance salesmen or sportscasters. When Center Willis Reed left the New York Knicks three years ago, he went home to Bernice, La., to relax with his family. But the lure of the basketball court-and fond memories of his cheering fans during the Knicks' glory years-proved too strong. He eventually became a scout for his old team, and in March he signed on for a three-year stint as coach. At rookie camp at Monmouth College in New Jersey last week. Reed made...