Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon mentioned the aspirations of the young, the black and other minorities. In addition to his now familiar line about the "lift of a driving dream" (of which, incomprehensibly, the President seems very fond), he used some highly inspirational rhetoric. "We have gone through a long, dark night of the American spirit. But now that night is ending," he said at one point. Then, attempting to speak past Congress and align himself politically with a widespread feeling that runs from the radical right to the radical left, he made a curious, almost self-condemnatory statement. "Let's face...
...very interested in Harvard, and very fond of it as an institution," she said, but declined to discuss Harvard's role as a university. "I think I'll let my husband make the policy," she smiled. "If I had been offered the job I might have some ideas...
...cliches are worn but enduring: Italian Catholics seldom go to church but worship the Pope. German Catholics are fond enough of church, but mostly in terms of the family and the home: the good German hausfrau is supposed to dedicate herself with equal concern to Kinder, Kuche and Kirche-children, kitchen and church. Now two new polls-a major study of Catholics in Rome and a massive poll of West German Catholics-challenge the validity of the old clichés. Germans show a deeper spiritual sensitivity and more concern for their fellow man than they are generally given credit...
Military men are fond of observing that their institutions only mirror those of the society at large. That is another way of saying that nations tend to get the armies and navies that they want or deserve. Zumwalt's bet is that in the armed forces or out, freedom and responsibility are not incompatible?that men treated less like children in the service of their country will, if called upon, prove the equal of their predecessors as fighting...
...Gentele should be able to match Rudi Bing and endure for quite a while himself. He is a man of slender elegance with a graceful manner and clear, purposeful blue eyes. His wife Marit, a trim, Nordic-blonde who could have stepped out of a Bergman movie, is fond of pointing out that Goran has a master's degree in political science. He may need it. A hail fellow does not necessarily guarantee a well...