Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martyrs." In the beginning, miffed at Guinea's lone vote of no to the De Gaulle constitution, Paris had been guilty of petty harassments. But since then, Paris has stood patiently by, ready to help, though annoyed by a new motto the Guineans inscribed on a monument dedicated to the dead of World War II: "To all the martyrs of colonialism...
...Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
...architect, hung his room with woodcuts of English cathedrals, hand-raised him according to the advanced Froebel kindergarten with its great emphasis on creative play with geometric blocks. Summertimes his mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses-bearded, hymn-singing Welshmen who still boasted of their Druid motto. "Truth Against the World''-gave him a lesson in farm work that Wright later recalled as "working from tired to tired." His father, an unstable drifter who fluctuated between being a Unitarian minister and a music master, taught him the importance of music and oratory...
Amid the clutter on his statehouse desk, Ohio's new Governor Michael V. (for Vincent) DiSalle keeps a framed motto attributed to the late Herbert Bayard Swope: i CANNOT GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR FAILURE-TRY TO PLEASE EVERYBODY...
Behind this sordid record lies the soul of a romantic. On his left arm Marks wears a tattooed double heart inscribed "Love, Nellie." On his right is an eight-inch snake coiled about a dagger stuck through the top of a skull and bearing Marks's motto, which happens to be "Death Before Dishonor...