Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which makes Wickham just the right man for the job at hand: a slot- machine tournament at Trump's Castle casino in Atlantic City. Perhaps no one among the 360 participants is better equipped for the slot battle than Wickham, who owns a Jackson, N.J., sewer business whose motto somehow says it all: "If You Ain't on Our S--- List, You're No Friend of Ours." Clearly, here's a man who knows a royal flush when he sees one. But his real game, the one he has sharpened through 20 tournaments during the past four years...
...Think globally, act locally" has become environmentalists' motto. To reward individuals who take this principle to heart, the Goldman Environmental Foundation in San Francisco last year created a kind of Nobel Prize for the green movement. The $60,000 awards are given annually to representatives from six continents for "their grass-roots efforts to preserve and enhance the environment." The awards have already been put to good use. Harrison Ngau used his 1990 prize money to campaign for and win a more exalted platform for his efforts to save Malaysia's forests: a seat in that nation's Parliament...
Life at the front is a song of dark fear, deep pride, lost mail, long waits and improvisation. The white heat of the summer is hard to remember now, when it becomes cold enough at night to leave ice rattling inside canteens. At the very front lines, the motto is "Travel light, freeze at night." Soldiers sleep in parka linings, with socks on their hands if their mittens are missing. They wish they could requisition extra toes...
This I don't find to be "preaching to the converted," and I don't feel that AWARE encourages anyone to "obsess about race." What does arise is an opportunity for expression of various and differing viewpoints. I'm sorry to disappoint Larew, but with diversity as Harvard's motto, it's unlikely that most people's thinking is alike. Hence, most people might want to think for themselves before they say that AWARE Week is not going to help them much...
...Thom Jenkins beneath the soaring pines of California's Sierra Nevada. As silence again envelops Dudley Cemetery, echoes of a U.S. Navy chaplain's words linger: "Thomas Allen Jenkins, your sacrifice will not be forgotten. Your courage stands as a beacon of liberty. You exemplify the U.S. Marine Corps motto, 'Semper Fidelis...