Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were gladly paying 25 marks ($2.50) for it; regular watches are not officially on sale, cost up to $1,000 on the black market. It was clearly stamped a postwar product by its tinny materials, its cheap appearance, and even by its symbolism. In contradiction of the old sundial motto Horas non numero nisi serenas ("I count no hours but unclouded ones"), the new timepiece works on cloudy days also...
When the proceedings began in the Hotel Fort Des Moines, nobody could be sure what the end would bring. Up until then A.V.C. had followed a loose, sweeping "Statement of Intentions" with a notable, laudable motto: "Citizens first, veterans second...
...home they had constructed a determined, deadly serious, left-of-center plan of action. It called for: international control of atomic energy, Big Three unity, a guaranteed annual wage, expansion of TVA-style river projects, solid opposition to antilabor, Jim Crow* and anti-Nisei legislation. True to the motto, it vetoed the idea of a veterans' bonus...
When reporting on Unitarians, you must remember that the principle of the free mind in religion is paramount to all particular beliefs and dogmas. . . . We are not unanimous, for we insist on thinking for ourselves, without the aid or hindrance of revealed "truth" or official church pronouncements. Our motto can be well stated: "Here not all think alike, but all alike think...
Ulcers & Oedipus. Cynical Vic Norman-whose motto was: "If a thing is not worth doing at all, it's not worth doing well"-soon discovered that life with Kimberly and Maag was the nearest thing to hell on earth. In the rare intervals when he was not being Evans-ridden, desperate Partner Kimberly, who is The Hucksters' most enjoyable character, frenziedly dulled his stomach ulcers with benzedrine, double-Scotches, expensive prostitutes, and psychiatrists. "My psychiatrist tells me I'm a sex-maniac," he told Vic sadly; "but I told him that I doubted if bulls and rabbits...