Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During an often heated debate with W. Scott Thompson, from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. Mendelsohn, an outspoken critic of arms proliferation, said "we have adopted a motto that bigger is better and even bigger is even better, but who's been served--certainly not our national security...
...Conoco's executives saw no way that a large oil concern could be rationally integrated into a liquor company. They also feared that Seagram would bring in new management. Around the oil firm's headquarters, employees bitterly joked that the motto of a combined Seagram-Conoco enterprise would be "Drink and Drive." Chairman Bailey quickly searched for an alternative merger partner, or so-called white knight, to thwart Seagram's plans. His first choice was Tulsa-based Cities Service, an oil company less than half Conoco's size but with exploration rights to 10 million...
Peter Alzado does not yet speak verse well enough to warrant being entrusted with both the Duke of Burgundy and the herald Montjoy. But Isabelle Rosier is an unalloyed delight as the 19-year-old princess Katharine, whom Henry woos with inadequate French even while wearing the correct French motto of the Order of the Garter embroidered on his leg riband...
Blodgett said the Class of '61 letterhead bears the Harvard seal with the motto "Truth" inscribed on the three books where "Veritas" is traditionally set. His own diploma, he believes, is in English, but, he notes, "its been a very long time since I've looked...
...dazed by the results or was he really as insouciant as he seemed? Referring to the phrase that has become the motto of his campaign, he cracked, still without a smile, 'l'homme tranquille is not just a campaign slogan...