Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Veritas" is Harvard's motto, "coming through" is its baseball team...
...What I find deeply troubling..." or "I fear I take a less sanguine view..." everybody listens, brows furrowed. Go around acting as if everything's wonderful, though, and you'll be dismissed as an ignorant lightweight, shallow and simpleminded. "What, me worry?" was Alfred E. Neuman's motto, not Thomas Mann...
Such a season of blame is taking its toll on an agency ill equipped to handle it. The 25,000 or so employees who wrestle with heavy caseloads, bad technology, long hours and growing threats to their safety, who find purpose in the bureau motto of "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity," can handle just about anything--anything but walking down the street and having a pal from the local police department slide up in his cruiser and ask mocking questions about all the cases the FBI has screwed up and all the headlines it's made and "Hey, what's the deal...
Today, with much relief, we'll see the top of the Prudential building and encounter the stumbling Boston College students ("join us early: the race may begin at 12, but we start partying at 10," as their motto goes) as we crest Heartbreak Hill after 21 miles. Among the BC race watchers, the drink of choice has always been that most enduring of college carbohydrate supplements: beer. The students even offer a patriotic cup of Sam Adams to unsuspecting runners as they struggle by, waiting with drunken anticipation for their gagging reaction (runners beware). Although not exactly the energybooster every...
...trying to explain human history, Barbara Tuchman wrote a book whose thesis was that the nearly invariable tendency of leaders and governments is to choose courses of action that are demonstrably idiotic. Her ringing title, The March of Folly, is almost too widely useful (it could serve as the motto of the U.S. Congress or the name of a newsmagazine), but what it fits best in recent experience, so that it should be inked in as a subtitle, is a brilliant and appalling new history of the Russian Revolution...