Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...background and a Nixon follower on most issues today, Buckley ran on the Conservative Party ticket in the nation's most consistently liberal state. More than any other major candidate, he made the social issue work, drawing enough of a Silent Majority vote with an approach summarized by his motto...
...chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped found a men's social club called the Orthogonians-"a no-necked and merry crew," Classmate Lois Elliott Wilams remembers. Their motto was "4 B's -beans, brains, brawn and bowels...
...Keaton had a coat of arms, that phrase would have been his motto. His father, Vaudevillian Joe Keaton, took Buster into the family act in 1898 at the age of three as "the human mop." Pop literally swept the floor with him. The kid became a great stone pebble, and made hazard a part of his persona...
...hospital in Los Angeles. There is an emphasis on good times: dancing, shuffleboard, outings on oversized tricycles and bowling (the Keen Agers v. the Hits and Mrs.). Clubs abound, including Bell Ringing, Stitch and Knit, Lapidary and "tepees" of the International Order of Old Bastards. The I.O.O.B. motto: "Anything for fun." There is, in a sense, a chance for a new start. "It doesn't matter what you used to be; all that counts is what you do here," said a resident of Sun City, Ariz...
...Duijn's motto of "Sweetness, Flowers and Understanding" coupled with good deeds apparently won over many Dutch voters who had been growing impatient with youthful protesters. In city council elections throughout The Netherlands last week, the Pixies won two seats in The Hague and one each in Alkmaar, Arnhem and Leiden. Their greatest victory was in Amsterdam, where the Pixies polled close to 38,000 votes, won five seats on the 45-seat council, and established themselves as the fourth biggest political party in the city...