Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...linden and oak symbolized Old Germany, the emblem today is the Gummibaum (rubber plant), whose leaves luxuriate in the central heating of millions of spanking-new apartments. The nation has no motto; Gott mit Uns went the way of the spiked helmet, and the closest thing to a watchword in a devoutly neat country is "Vorsicht! Frisch Gebohnert" (Careful! Freshly Waxed). Well-to-do Germans are drinking more heavily, apparently to fight the frustrations of wealth; sociologists speak of Wohlstandsalkoholismus-prosperity alcoholism...
Backbone Added. In 1937 Home became Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary. It was he who handed the Prime Minister Hitler's message setting up the Munich meeting in 1938, and Home accompanied his boss to the ill-fated conference. The Home family motto is True to the End, and Home still defends Chamberlain's at tempt to make a deal with Hitler. "Chamberlain," he says, "hated Hitler and Fascism, but he felt that Europe in general and Britain in particular were in even greater danger from Communism." In wartime, Major Lord Home was invalided...
Deeply involved in technology, Thornton is neither a professionally trained engineer nor a technician, and, though he is a great believer in running things under tight statistical control, he places little reliance on electronic logic in making management decisions. In a field where speed is a motto, he snaps out no instant decisions, likes to take his time about making up his mind. He overcomes a problem by attacking it with dogged tenacity, painstakingly learning all the facts, then turning them over slowly in his mind many times until they fit together into a decision-a decision that often comes...
...Yale atmosphere might educate Wallace and stimulate the University. Now that another group of students, led by members of the Yale Daily News, is trying again to arrange for a visit by Wallace, Brewster has a chance to learn from his students and offer them every encouragement. The Yale motto, with which Brewster may be familiar, is "Lux et Veritas"; it is given to no president to suppress either...
...Willis finds himself assailed by criticisms. He is, critics charge, an egotist massively convinced of his own Tightness, stonily resistant to other people's ideas. He bristles at any questioning of his administration. Wags say that he has revised Chicago's motto, "I Will," to "I, Willis...