Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure of himself and the integrity of the processes he has used to reach his decision, he can be strong, but he can be mild." "You'll Do, All Right." On his last day at the Point, standing before a giant West Point emblem and its motto, DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY, the President delivered the commencement address to the 469 graduates of the class of '55. It was only the second time in the academy's 153 years that a cadet had returned as President to speak to a graduating class, and the occasion, for all the scurrying...
...Named for gallant Count Bernardo de Galvez (1746-86), Spanish governor of Louisiana and viceroy of Mexico. His motto, now Galveston's: Yo solo (I alone...
...civil servants who govern the Congo on his orders, Pétillon has an actor's mobile face, slow limpid speech, and graceful white hands which more often than not gesticulate with a lighted Camel to emphasize a point. An old Africa hand, he is guided by a motto like that of his predecessors: Dominer pour Servir-dominate to serve...
...have not come to bring peace, but a sword." And the devil whispers behind the leaves of the Book, "There is your blessing on war." Another good one is, "Let your moderation be known to all men." The devil gets many folks to take that as their motto, many of them pulpit spellbinders, and they let their moderation be known-immoderately...
...hammers and sickles was stopped from devouring a Red Riding Hood named Guatemala by an ax blow from Uncle Sam. On the axhead: a picture of Castillo Armas. Another joshed his style of rule by decree, showing him whipping up two mules labeled "Congress" and "Courts." The motto of his revolution, Dios, Patria y Libertad, was devastatingly changed on the float to Adiós, Patria y Libertad...