Word: mottoes
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...