Word: fond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...precision. There is Prince Boun Oum, recognized as Premier by the U.S., but frankly described by one Western diplomat as "a sort of Buddhist Falstaff." One of Boun Oum's supporters called him "the most representative personality of the kingdom"-by which was meant that he is excessively fond of drinking and wenching. In fact, Boun Oum owes his position to the strong man on the Western side-General Phoumi Nosavan. an anti-Communist soldier who captured Vientiane three months ago and forced Souvanna into exile...
...owlish youngster, Josh Wallman has always been fond of birds. A lifelong owner of canaries and parakeets, he started going to the Natural Science Center of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History at about eleven, soon became an unpaid, unofficial "helper" there. During his sophomore year at the Bronx High School of Science, he studied the waterproofing of birds' feathers, earned a regional award from the Future Scientists of America Foundation. Winning the eye of Dr. Daniel S. Lehrman of the Rutgers University Institute of Animal Behavior, Josh was taken on during summer vacations as a laboratory...
JAMES TOBIN, 42, professor of economics at Yale. U.S. economists are fond of making lists of the ten most brilliant U.S. economists, and Tobin always appears on them. A specialist in statistical analysis of economic forces, he is essentially a "scientific" economist with no strong political attachments. When Kennedy asked him to serve on CEA, Tobin said: "Mr. President, you must have the wrong man. I'm a sort of ivory-tower economist." Replied Kennedy: "That's all right. I'm a sort of ivory-tower President...
Parody may well be at its most uselessly enjoyable when the parodist is a century away from his subject. Since I bought this anthology I have grown very fond of Robert Benchley's Christmas Afternoon...
Thus, to the sound of guns, Angola woke from its sleep of centuries. Angola's dream world was founded on the fond Portuguese belief that there was no bitterness between white and black because there was no discrimination. Any black man in the colony who could learn to speak good Portuguese and adopt the white man's ways could acquire "assimilated status" with all the rights of a citizen of the Portuguese republic. Only some 40,000 of Angola's 4,300,000 blacks have achieved assimilation...