Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motto of Earth Day, "Every Day is Earth Day," implies that Earth Day is an ideal after which to model all other days. If Earth Day is the best we can do, our planet is in a heap of trouble...
...respect for Miss Pyle and Mrs. Dugan, we vow to say only nice things from now on. Our motto is no longer "Which side...
...motto embroidered on a pillow in Alice Roosevelt Longworth's sitting room said, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me" . . . That's certainly not the credo of William A. Henry III, who wrote the main story. But the Pulitzer-prizewinning Henry understands the appeal of a juicy tale . . . "Whenever friends get together in a room," he observes, "the conversation may start out with East Germany or nuclear energy, but it gets around to people's divorces pretty quickly...
...course of this riveting account of the search for her father's roots, Germaine Greer reveals that the ancient motto of her family is Memor esto, or "Be mindful of your ancestors." In her case, obsessed might be a more accurate adjective. Until he died in 1983, a wasted shell of a man after serving in the Australian army during World War II, Reg Greer had rebuffed inquiries about his past. Germaine's mother seemed not to care. But after her father's death, Germaine, best known as the author of the 1970 feminist treatise The Female Eunuch, embarked...
Lehtinen affects a paramilitary style that has won him few friends around the office. He posts his motto -- NO GUTS. NO GLORY --on bulletin boards, barks orders like a drill sergeant, and once waved a toy AK-47 at his staff. He often shouts and curses, and has been known to throw objects. A number of experienced prosecutors have left, including Richard Gregorie, the 17-year veteran who got the Noriega indictment...