Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle joined in the full panoply of ceremony, listened with evident pleasure while his comrade in arms from World War II welcomed him at Washington's International Airport "in be half of the American people." But given his own turn at the microphone, the visitor was quick to remind his audience that there was a summit meeting coming. "A grave international debate is going to take place in three weeks," said he. "Before joining this debate it is necessary for me to consult with the President of the U.S. ? this dear, illustrious man on whom so much...
...woman: "A bride price gives a girl a sense of her worth." Others feared that without paying a bride price, a man might say to his wife, "I got you for nothing, so you must be worth nothing." Besides, said another woman, "a bride's family can always remind themselves of their lost daughter by looking at the cows they got in exchange...
Sicilian Snopes. Like an embalmed pharaoh, Don Fabrizio is surrounded by his possessions, from powdered footmen to Murano chandeliers, from silver soup tureens to gold-flecked frescoes. When a soldier of the risorgimento turns up in Don Fabrizio's garden to remind him of the passions of the dispossessed, the prince gives his pet great Dane some conservative advice ("One never achieves anything by going bang! bang!'') and retreats to his telescope to contemplate the snobbish quietude of the stars...
...think that it is wise to describe the Kikuyu rite of female circumcision as barbaric just because it is not practiced in the U.S. I would like to remind you that female circumcision is common in many parts of Africa and in other parts of the world also...
...Whistling softly to remind herself to breathe, svelte U.S. Olympic Skier Betsy Snite, 21, swivel-hipped down the steep, tight trail on Mount Mansfield, completed her two runs a full 4.4 sec. ahead of a topflight Olympic field to win the women's slalom...