Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been a manage like Leo Durocher, either. Gourmet gambler, clotheshorse, man about Hollywood, Durocher was one of baseball's most controversial characters when he managed the Brooklyn Dodgers anc New York Giants to three pennants in the 1940s and 1950s. "Nice guys finish last," was his famous motto. He was sued by a fan who claimed Leo had broken his jaw, and he was suspended for the entire 1947 season by Commissioner A. B. Chandler, who finally decided that his conduct was "detrimental to baseball." Dropped by the Giants in 1955, he couldn't find another managerial...
...grind the precious beans in the 17th century, when Madame de Sévigné purportedly scoffed that "Racine will pass-like coffee," bear little resemblance to the streamlined models sold in France today, but their shape is basically the same. A craftsman's implement bears the doughty motto: "I am Jacques' chisel. Let me lie. I'll work for him until...
Jody Adams as mehitabel made a part that could easily have worn thin (her motto, "toujours gaie," must have been repeated 50 times) constantly amusing, surprising whenever possible, and occasionally touching. John Sansone's archy, however, didn't quite click, perhaps because his part was rather stupid: a lot of wise sayings from the cockroach's perspective on human life, neither incisive nor witty...
...felt she should have been granted the presidency automatically, accused moderates on the nominating committee of having refused her the official endorsement because of her "wholehearted" support of Barry Goldwater in 1964. The title of her tract in support of Goldwater, A Choice Not an Echo, became a motto for Goldwaterites, and now, said one of her followers, "the liberal rats" were out to get her. (Mrs. Schlafly claims that another of her tomes, The Gravediggers, was the major factor in the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev...
Canada's 6,000,000 French are concentrated in Quebec, whose motto is a meaningful "Je me souviens" (I remember). Originally they meant to establish New France in the New World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form...