Word: mottoes
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...into his walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with his own pattern of letters, engineering reports, and half a dozen straight-stemmed pipes. On the front of the desk is the Douglas coat of arms.* On it is inscribed his Scottish forebears' motto: Jamaiz arrière (never behind...
...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
...Butte's oldtime motto, "Spend it while you've got it and don't cry when it's gone," and the hell-roaring characters who lived up to the motto. Among them: Larry Mullins, a mine shoveler, who inherited $3,500 and spent it by installing a public harem in a hotel suite where he played host for a riotous three days...
...week Colonel Svoboda was an army chief, awaiting orders to join the great Red offensive. Waiting with him was his Russian-armed Czech army, tough, confident, thirsty for revenge. The army's heart was in the green valleys and forests of its native land. The army's motto was on its banner: Verni Zustaneme-We Remain Faithful...
Says Headmaster Keep: "It's a great success. The boys are thoroughly serious. They expect to serve in the armed forces." Berkshire's motto is Pro vita, non pro schola discimus ("We learn not for school but for life...