Word: recollections
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...answer. When he forgoes the quips, his replies are carefully phrased to neutralize any hint of boastfulness. He seldom initiates talk about the broken neck and shattered shoulder he suffered in combat with the Germans in Italy's Po Valley in 1945. But if pressed, he can movingly recollect how his neighbors took up collections that helped pay for his operations. Privately, Dole comes across as somewhat ambivalent about running for President, as though unalloyed ambition were a touch unseemly. As he puts it, "I have drive, but I'm not driven. Destiny's a pretty lofty word...
Years from now, people probably won't remember every word that Charles, Prince of Wales or Secretary of State George P. Shultz utters at Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration. They may recollect bits and pieces of what they heard at the symposia they attended. They will, however, definitely remember the stadium concert finale of the five-day celebration...
...peace and order continue, the show from the Philippines will be off the air in a week, and the ecstatic new government will stop dancing and stare coldly at its prosaic problems of too many insurgents and too little money. Then it may still be easy enough to recollect the plot and the cast of the revolution. But will you remember the theme...
...ideas of college education and career, even while hoping that their daughters would someday realize their dreams. My mother did not speak to the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, but the brief moment of contact had left a lasting impression in her mind such that she was able to recollect the entire episode to me twenty odd years later, in a voice filled with admiration and pride...
FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF TELEGRAM SENT TO PRESIDENT PUSEY. DEAR PRESIDENT PUSEY AS YOU MAY RECOLLECT I'M UP FOR ELECTION ON THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS. AND WOULD LIKE TO WIN, AND AM SUFFICIENTLY A POLITICIAN TO RECOGNIZE THAT CASTIGATING YOUR ACTION IN CALLING THE POLICE WILL NOT NECESSARILY GAIN ME ALL THE VOTES OF OLD ALUMNI, NONE-THE-LESS, I RUSH HAPPILY TO SAY THAT YOU ARE CONCEIVABLY A LIAR IN PRETENDING HASTE AND NIGHTSTICKS WERE NECESSARY TO SOLVE AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION FOR WHICH RECENT HISTORY MIGHT HAVE PREPARED YOU WITH MANY AN ALTERNATIVE. SINCE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL...