Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With only the first few of the 15 days of competition completed, the XVI Olympics, whether measured by tape or scale or stop watch, were already a success, and the performers had proved their intense devotion to the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius, or, for those lacking athletic scholarships, faster, higher, farther...
...more than luck last week when Fullback Dickie Mattison came through in the clutch with a fourth-quarter touchdown. Even when the going was rough, the worst worrywarts in the stands watched their coach calmly chewing on a blade of grass, relaxed and remembered their mildly irreverent motto: "In Dodd we trust...
...Ryall had been childhood friends. Ross, newly in love with his old flame and desperate at the thought of losing her again, had faked his death and joined Mrs. Ryall. Moving first to London and then to a house in the country (which bore, by the sheerest chance, the motto: "To live happily, let us live hidden"), Mr. and ' Mrs. Sydney Davies-as they called themselves-had lived happily thereafter on Mrs. Ryall's money...
...West might take note of another fact: since Nasser has taken over the canal completely, responsibility seems to have become the motto of the day. Since even a minor accident by overworked canal pilots could now produce a major world crisis, Egypt is doing its best to run the canal safely, and speedily. There have even been reports that Nasser has permitted two Israeli chartered ships to pass through--an astounding fact, if true. And on the face of it, Nasser has said he would be willing, as an act of sovereignty, to renegotiate the Convention of 1888, which provided...
...first big Algerian rebellion in 1945 with a ruthless vigor that the French colonists still remember with admiration and the Algerians with bitterness. As Governor General of Morocco, his remedy for unrest was to propose the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. "Colonies are not made by virgins" was his motto. For years he had been the most stubborn opponent of all concessions, the loudest champion of the colonists' cherished contention that Algeria is a permanent part of France, the most violent critic of any suggestion of a separate status for Algeria...