Word: fonds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many Americans, the memory of Senator Joseph McCarthy cannot fade fast enough. In his native Wisconsin, though, a loyal few meet each spring in fond remembrance of the good old days. The 15th anniversary of McCarthy's death was marked last week with a Requiem High Mass in Milwaukee followed by a graveside service and a luncheon in Appleton the next day. About 40 members of the Joseph McCarthy Foundation gathered to hear the Rev. Raymond Vint avow that "history will unerringly find him his proper place in the estimation of the nation he served...
...system's bacterial population, is a synonym for misery that can spoil a trip and jeopardize the victim's health. The standard prophylactic for many years has been Entero-Vioform, a drug so frequently used that it is the traveler's best friend. That fond relationship has come under challenge by the American Medical Association. The A.M.A. Journal has not only questioned Entero-Vioform's effectiveness, but cautions that its heavy use may lead to complications that make "Montezuma's revenge" seem mild by comparison...
Bunting countered His remark by saying. "I've always been fond of kind brothers, although I'm not too sure about the kin part in this case...
...East African correspondent for TIME during the 1960s, William Smith has written a study that is less of a treatise on African nationalism and politics than a fond, informal portrait of one of postcolonial Africa's most engaging leaders. Nyerere, now 50, the son of a chief of Tanganyika's relatively minor Zanaki tribe, was raised in a cluster of mud huts and sent off to a government school at twelve. He became a teacher of biology and history, and studied for three years at the University of Edinburgh. Back in Tanganyika, he was increasingly drawn into...
...miles from London. My grandmother is no rich, but my grandfather was a knight, and so she has a certain position to maintain. For years Mrs. Aslett (or perhaps it was Haslett: no one know) has come in every day except Sunday to cock and clean, My grandmother is fond of her in an irritated sort of way: "She's a good soul, but she does creep about the house...