Word: semel
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...Dole controversy has opened up other fault lines in the Time Warner empire. As head of HBO, Fuchs was frequently at odds with the top executives at Warner Bros. film division, Robert Daly and Terry Semel. Some speculate that Daly and Semel were not unhappy to see Fuchs -- the one company official assigned to respond publicly to Dole's attack -- aking all the corporate heat. When Robert Friedman, head of advertising and publicity for Warner Bros. films, was asked for a comment on Dole's speech, he interestingly passed the buck. "It's not a movie issue," he said...
Primo pro nummata vini, ex hac bibunt libertini; semel bibunt pro captivis, post hec bibunt ter pro vivis, quater pro Christianis cunctis, quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis, sexies pro sororibus vanis, septies pro militibus silvanis...
...Ellison g. g. Jones Gamache pt. pa. Haines Markwett c.pt. .c.pt. Provonches Lane 1d. 1d, Spofford North 2d. 2d. Cornsweet Sayles 3d. 3d. Dagenhardt Hatch c. c. Case R. Murphy 3a. 3a. Slater Dreier 2a. 2a. Abrams Simpson 1a. 1a. Scheck Linn o.h. o.h. Fessenden J. Murphy l.h. l.h. Semel...
...those days absences were announced in Latin every Saturday and excuses were given in Latin. Common excuses were semel aegrotavi, bis invalui, detentus ab amicis, exoppido and tintinnabulum non andivi. One freshman, charged with three absences, replied: "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the Buttery." The poor freshmen had a hard time of it indeed. No freshman could wear his hat in the college yard unless it rained, showed, or hailed, or unless his hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with...
...each week the absences were announced in Latin, and excuses had to be made in Latin also. The announcement would be given, - Terabfuisti," and the boy addressed would answer, "Semel aegrotavi et bis invalui." or "Detentus ob anucis;" but it is related that a certain unlearned Freshman once made reply. "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the buttery...