Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prudent who is Patient is the motto of the British House of Leicester. So patient was the second Earl of Leicester that he spent all of his 67 years in the House of Lords waiting for something to say. His son, the third Earl was equally silent for 32 years. The fourth Earl kept up the family tradition, but the legendary Leicester patience has at last run out. The present Earl, 63-year-old Thomas William Edward Coke has risen after only 22 years of silence to make his maiden speech. His subject: pollution. "I hope we shall use safer...
...Economics Association worked alongside militant Women's Liberationists. On the day of the vote, the Senate galleries were filled. Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird Johnson's former press secretary, played a latter-day Madame Defarge; while listening to the debate, she worked on a needlepoint design carrying the motto UPPITY WOMEN UNITE. Exercising her privilege of access to the Senate floor, Michigan Representative...
Each July 12, arches are erected for the Orange Order parades celebrating "King Billy's" 1690 victory at the Battle of the Boyne. On the arches is the phrase "This We Will Maintain," taken from William of Orange's motto Je maintiendrai. For nearly three centuries, Protestants have maintained in Ulster a political dominance that translates into advantages not shared by Catholics on either side of the border: better jobs, better houses, and a better future for their children. Distinctions of name, address and occupation in Ulster are subtle but vicious. Belfast's Shankill Road is definitely...
What is their motto in New Haven...
...Equal justice under law," says the famous motto carved into the marble of the United States Supreme Court Building. Those words, according to a number of feminists and to thoughtful legal experts as well, have hardly applied to the American woman...