Word: fonds
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...interviewing Nixon supporters across the nation, TIME Correspondent Champ Clark found that "Nixonians are not against change. I have yet to meet one who wants the U.S. to stay exactly the way it is. But they have in kindred spirit a sense of orderliness, of tidiness. They are fond of saying that their political stance is 'evolutionary, not revolutionary.' It was in this meaning that Richard Frank, vice president of Schenley Distillers, Inc., rolled his eyes heavenward and summed up his political desires: 'Please don't rain...
Richard Nixon is fond of the Horatio Alger cast to his life, but there is one milestone to go: he is not yet a millionaire. He is on the way, however, as shown by financial statements released last week by the White House on both the President and Vice President Spiro Agnew. The first such public accounting since 1969 notes that the President's net worth, thanks largely to his real estate investments-and inflation-has risen from $596,900 to $765,118. Nixon's assets...
Despite its somewhat circular organization and the author's cloying habit of referring to the composer as "the Master," Music at the Close is clearly an indispensable and humane book for Stravinskyites. All the uproar aside, for instance, where else could a fan learn that Stravinsky was so fond of avocados that his wife Vera invariably carried two or three ripening examples in her purse when they traveled...
...substantial cult, the only word for the evening is enchanting. Retrospectively, one can see that Coward the lyricist has been the slyly sophisticated offspring of W.S. Gilbert. Satirically, he could spoof the empire's topeeless Englishman who went out in the midday sun because he had a fond underlying assumption that that sun would never set. Temperamentally, Coward is a child of the '20s, that era of wonderfully liberating nonsense. He was one of the first philosophers of "doing your own thing," but lightheartedly and rather gallantly, without the grim puritan ardor of bra burning or the dubious...
...strongest example of this is the policy of multiracialism, a practice which the Portuguese are fond of correctly pointing out as unique in the history of European involvement in Africa...