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Word: mottoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubles as the school's library, there is an award from the Michigan Department of Education congratulating the school's fourth-graders for scoring 20% higher than their predecessors on a state assessment test. Beside the plaque, in bold construction-paper letters, is the school's motto: "We demand excellence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold Quest For Quality | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven volley of one-line gags; with expert timing and tireless bounce, he also hurls his whole 6 feet and 191 dieted pounds into every act of his show. His motto is still "anything for a laugh"-and practically anything he does gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO & TV 1949: Milton Berle's TEXACO STAR THEATER | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...soon as his usefulness to them is ended. He kills them, but not before he has received his own death-wound. In the Coast Guard cutter that has picked him up, half-delirious, dying, he tries to voice the dictum that is the book's real motto: "No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody -* chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Gertrude Stein's remark to him ("You are all a lost generation") he used as motto for The Sun Also Rises, whence it took its wide currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...polls are correct, the Bluegrass State will elect its first woman governor this year. The administration of "Martha Layne" as she is familiarly known to Kentuckians--should help revise the stereotype of Southern politics. Perhaps Kentuckians have learned the truth of their commonwealth's motto--"United We Stand; Divided We Fall." In any event, the sun seems to shine bright on the future of women in politics in Kentucky and throughout the South...

Author: By John S. Gardner, | Title: Southern Belles | 10/1/1983 | See Source »

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