Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiro, spero-while I breathe, I hope-is young John Henry Johnson's motto. What he hopes for, he tells his astonished Congressman Jack Fairweather, is some of the gold in Fort Knox. Impossible, cluck-clucks Fairweather. and just what would he do with it if he got it. The answer convinces the congressman that he has been catering to the screwball vote: "I've developed a process for changing gold into dirt...
...graduates still go back to their mountain communities, and of these, many become teachers. Thus the message of Berea returns continually to the mountains. To a whole region it has brought learning where no learning was before, but perhaps even more important, it has also brought its motto: "God hath made of one blood all nations...
...With some half-million followers in Japan making up Japan's second largest flower arranging school,* Sofu now thinks he can afford to ignore the criticism of traditionalists who grumble that "Sofu has taken the soul out of ikebana." In reply Sofu simply quotes his own Grass Moon motto: "Always look forward to a fresh and vivid world and do not become buried in retrospection...
Each tag, for which startled retailers are charged 3?, "to cover the cost of shipping and mailing.'' is illustrated with a picture of the Virgin Mary, the trade name "Marilyke" and the motto, "Whatever our Blessed Mother approves." It also bears a list of specifications for Marilyke dresses, among them: "Full coverage for the bodice, chest, shoulders, back and arms," no cutouts lower than two inches below the neckline, no transparent or flesh-colored materials to give the impression of nudity, sleeves halfway between shoulder and elbow, nothing that will "unduly reveal the figure of the wearer...
...Ordered, in the House, the motto "In God We Trust" to be inscribed on all new greenbacks, although that is not the official national motto ("E pluribus unum" is). "In God We Trust" has been used on coins for almost a century, never on bills...