Word: mustn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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seemed rather proud of their capacity for suffering. It made them the world's best airline passengers, but had given them one of the world's worst airlines. Surely this 'mustn't grumble' attitude accounted for a great deal of Britain's decline? But of course it made the place nice and quiet. Our vices are so often our virtues as well...
...those nasty, divisive reformers' Did he dig with the same foot as they pestilent fellow Luther' a dirty-minded man. And as a great despiser of women, if I recollect properly, though it's years since I read his blundering, coarse-fibred romance about the giants. But we mustn't quarrel; we must live together in holy charity. I've seen Dear Clem since last we talked, and he says it's all right for me to stay. I wouldn't fuss him about it if I were you He seems to have great things on his mind...
...rapid success, says Gaddes, has brought with it some problems. "We're very much in the spotlight of the regional companies, and I sense we're now being judged as a national festival. But we mustn't lose sight of our original purpose: to give the best young singers an opportunity to perform under the best possible conditions...
...second half of the book Fraser comes into her own. Charles II, once crowned King of England, spent money lavishly, on art, theater, palaces, women. Fraser, while delighting in details of court life, argues strenuously that we mustn't blame Charles for spending too much--he did it to maintain the prestige of the monarchy. Her affection for Charles leads her astray here: surely there was no need to have three royal mistresses at once on the royal payroll, and his nephew William, acceding to the throne in equally shaky circumstances, spent in his first year only slightly over half...