Word: fonds
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Though he lost both parents -- his father permanently and his mother temporarily during the crucial years of his childhood -- Clinton's memories of Hope are fond. Uncles and aunts and cousins rallied round the bright little orphan left with his grandparents. He remembers being taken to various relatives' places of work, showered with compensatory kindnesses. His grandfather did a spell as a night watchman at one of the pine-tree sawmills. He would take Billy with him, let him play in the mill until the boy was tired, then put him in the backseat of his Buick to sleep...
Katz began the interviews for Home Fires four years ago and obviously became fond of the Gordons. He is pleased that they now seem at peace with themselves and the faith that even "the most wounded of families could eventually heal." Readers will be forgiven if they attribute some of the Gordons' semihappy ending to sheer exhaustion...
Ross Perot is fond of condemning Washington as "a town filled with sound bites, shell games, handlers and media stunt men." His disdain for politics- as-usual propels his anti-campaign. Yet Perot has turned over management of his crusade to a bipartisan corps of political pros who exemplify everything Perot says he opposes. Their efforts to transform Perot's volunteer army into a more traditional campaign brigade have sown widespread resentment and anger among his early enlistees...
...Very torturous. I am very fond of Mandela, even now. I have always loved him. But there is a section within the A.N.C. that does not want their leader to have anything to do with...
...graduate, be sure to drop by the Thursday afternoon office hours of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. There, you'll be able to bask in his distinctive accent and unique taste in clothing. The dean, who also has a top-notch singing voice, appears to be particularly fond of bow ties, hats and red carnations...