Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motto on Milo Smith's office wall reads: "She who waits for the knight in shining armor must clean up after his horse." Widowed nine years ago at 47, she went back to college "to get another piece of paper." At 50, she was told she was unemployable. "They said I should go to the welfare office, that my new degree was worthless because of lack of recent work experience...
...With a motto like "tough in the corners, but definitely off the wall," it is difficult to see anything but success for the women's squash team this season...
...Nobel, the multimillionaire inventor of dynamite, six years before his death at 63 in 1896 and eleven years before the inauguration of what has become the world's most honorific-and occasionally quixotic-award. Since 1901 a five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed gold medals bearing the motto Pro Pace et Fraternitate Gentium (For Peace and Brotherhood of Nations) and cash awards ranging from $30,000 to $173,700 to 59 men, five women and eleven organizations. Nineteen times the committee made no awards at all - of ten because of wars more terrible than even the father...
...vengeance, says Silberman. "After 350 years of fearing whites, black Americans have discovered that the fear runs the other way, that whites are intimidated by their very presence; it would be hard to overestimate what an extraordinarily liberating force this discovery is." The almost pathetic hopefulness of the motto of the Tuskegee Institute class of 1886?"There's always room at the top" ?finally gave way to the angry oath of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee leader in 1965: "If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the f???-legs...
...smug, narrow, easily shocked circle populated by his mother and her friends. The other possessed his imagination: total friendship, passionate, uninhibited and free, with a like spirit. Artistically, Forster did not want to choose, to become simply a novelist of manners or a poet of pleasures. The motto of his fourth novel, Howards End (1910), captured both the dilemma and the hope: "Only connect...