Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time in endless conversation in apparent defiance of the Communist Party's credo of hard work. It is a pedestrian's heaven; Albania is quite possibly the most earless country anywhere. The people are suspicious, curious, unsmiling-testimony to the effectiveness of Party Boss Hoxha's motto: "It is fear that guards the vineyard...
...from regular discussions of teen-age venereal disease and pregnancy. Neighborhood cleanups rarely zero in on landlords' violations of housing codes. Many 4-H members seem to be ambitious kids who need help least. Compared to the Black Power slogan that it imitates, the bucolic Indiana 4-H motto ("Clover Power") seems more lame than with...
...which we have invented," the baroque lettering proclaimed, the trustees of San Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...
...What makes Novel the Elkton, Md., or Gretna Green, Scotland, of France is the hamlet's mayor, René Bouvet. An athletic, effervescent man of 42, Bouvet does not believe in the ten-day posting of the bans or the month-long residency required by French law. His motto: "Just say 'yes,' I'll do the rest...
...Dubos says in polished, French-accentuated English, "is based upon a faith in the immense resiliency of nature. When man realizes that technology cannot solve all human problems, nature bounces back from our abuses. The fundamental aberration of scientific technology during the past 100 years is embodied in the motto of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair: Science Finds/ Industry Applies/ Man Conforms. In fact, man still lives with the genes of the Old Stone Age hunter and the New Stone Age farmer. We must make industry conform to man by adapting it to his genetic limitations. For example...