Word: shall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter of resignation to his miners, John L. Lewis, two months short of 80, summed up his life's, work in what were his least controversial words. "I shall hope," he said simply, "that each of you will believe that through the years I have been faithful to your interests." Lewis' successor as U.M.W. president for the final year of his four-year term: Mild, humorous Vice President Thomas Kennedy, 72, a miner since 1900, onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39), who has lived and worked faithfully for 40 years in John L.'s massive shadow...
...paddock." Lawrence was not the first or the last to be infuriated by Franklin's middle-class prudence; yet Franklin's maxims-many taken from even earlier sages-are no less true for having become truisms. Who can deny that "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas"? Or that "Light purse, heavy heart" are still keeping company? What confounds Franklin's critics is that he was so confoundedly right...
...work shall not be wholly lost...
...Independent Now." Next day De Gaulle arrived. Pausing en route in desert Mauritania-poorest of the Community's twelve states-he had answered his hosts' independence talk by saying: "You are independent now. The Community is going to change and develop, but we shall make the changes together...
...school's oldest living graduate, football's Grand Old (97) Man Amos Alonzo Stagg (Yale '88) mulled over the matter for a moment, then wired back to New Haven: "Thanks for your good telegram telling me of the distinction which has befallen me. I shall try to behave myself for the rest of my days so that dear old Yale will not suffer...