Word: mottoes
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...Hampshire? An almanac calls it a "relatively small but well wooded and scenic state of mountains, lakes and rapid rivers that provide a good water supply and large hydroelectric-power potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify...
Last week Fell worked on final details in an office that was as modest as the man himself. An Olympic flag hung from a small pole on one wall. As he talked, he signed the certificates that will be given to the top finishers. Lake Placid's motto for the Games has been "An Olympics in Perspective," and he said he felt that the organizers had lived up to the challenge. The Games would have few of the flashy trimmings of other years, but the facilities for the competition were first-rate. That was the point...
...departed for the bohemia of Paris and London. She flamboyantly dallied with writers and artists: two became her husbands (including Painter Max Ernst), many her lovers (including Playwright Samuel Beckett). Bored and between husbands in 1938, she began to collect art, later and anonymously sponsor young artists, adopting the motto "Buy a painting a day." When the Louvre declared in 1940 that her Dalis, Mirds and Picassos were not worth the effort of hiding them from the Nazis, she shipped them to New York, opened the influential Art of This Century gallery and sponsored American painters like Jackson Pollock...