Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College for a few and trades for the many" should be our motto. We have too many useless college graduates to feed now. A smart fellow with a good trade is never pictured holding rejection slips and mooching food stamps and unemployment checks from his uneducated fellow taxpayers...
Engaged. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, 29, whose motto is "For Sweden-In Keeping With The Times"; and West German-Brazilian Commoner Silvia Renate Sommerlath, 32, a protocol official for the Olympic Games...
...Diehl, good refereeing consists of a triad of intangibles he labels consistency, acceptance, and control. Hannon phrases his motto as "knowledge of the rules, good judgment, and fairness." Whatever the criteria, every official aims to have "the perfect angle" when he makes a call, which Diehl describes as having the play in full view from its inception to the time of the infraction. "There is no perfect position, you've got to work for it," he adds. For Hannon "the key to the whole thing is hustling and getting down the court...
Like its "chairmadam" (really), the organization's style and language are colorful--and noticed. "For Love and Money" is its theme song; "My ass is mine" is COYOTE's completely serious motto...
...movie moves forward by inertia. In Z, first the lingering fate of the seriously injured central figure, then the unexpected slant taken by the prosecutor kept the excitement up. Here, the tension dies long before the prisoners do. And the irony, predictably, becomes heavy-handed. The Latin motto "Justitia", inscribed in mosaic on the floor of the Palace of Justice in Vichy is shown over and over again--to the point where the audience's intelligence is insulted...