Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Starring National Committeewoman India Edwards, the 15-minute program elbows its way among the soap operas to plug the Democratic ticket. The show features a two-voiced character named Skizo Phrenia, who identifies himself as a split-personality Republican: "My motto is yes. And then again...
Largely because of the years of missionary pacification by Brazil's Indian Protective Service, whose motto is "Die if you must, but never kill." the Chavantes have given no trouble. In fact, recently a party of breech-clouted braves joined with the roadbuilders in a fiesta so festive that their chief wound up taking a flight in a foundation airplane. The chief circled ecstatically over his village of dome-shaped huts, roaring with laughter and shouting greetings to his people below...
Peter Kiewit is a 51-year-old Omaha contractor whose motto is: "No job is too big or too small." Three years ago, while grossing more than $100 million a year. Kiewit lived up to half of his motto. He won a contract to resurface three rural Nebraska streets. Cost: $1,500. Last week, Kiewit lived up to the other half. He got the second biggest single construction contract ever awarded.* Kiewit's new job: the $1.2 billion uranium plant for the Atomic Energy Commission in southern Ohio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...track. Seven Finnish naval cadets, handsome in blue uniforms and white caps, lowered the Olympic flag. On its high tower, the Olympic torch flared brightly for a moment, then went out. while the crowd sang the Finnish national anthem, the electric Scoreboard hopefully flashed in Latin the Olympic motto: "Faster, higher, stronger." If no general war intervened, the world's athletes would assemble again at Melbourne, Australia, for the XVI Olympiad...
...future life, if we neither believe in hell nor in heaven, what is there left of interest in the whole idea? We are becoming a humanity without God or devil. We could not care less. This seems to me to be uncommonly like the fitting motto for the worst kind of hell, and we are on our way towards...