Word: mottos
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...MOTTO, do or die, and preferring the former I gun the V-8 amid screeching spew of dead dry earth--our yacht is afloat once more, roaring toward the casinos over the horizon, beckoning invisibly but offering no hope or suggestion as to what a trio of young men ought to do when, the roaring onset of hydropowered blotter acid moments away, the conservative governor of California hitches a ride: "Say fellas. Where are you headed?"--but there is a roaring in my ears and I think he is calling us "heads" and so pinned down and in duress...
Although the gold medal of the Nobel Peace Prize bears the motto PRO PACE ET FRATERNITATE GENTIUM (For Peace and the Brotherhood of Nations), the selection of the recipient often triggers sniping from those who disagree with the choice. The fusillade is heaviest, however, when the committee chooses not to recognize an achieved peace but to promote ongoing negotiations. And as honored as the prize is, its clout does not always ensure success...
...first paintings, which carried the motto "Greed is not a virtue," were meant to counterbalance the obsessive drive for money which he felt had overtaken the country. "It was a gentle rebuke to all that crap," he says...
Intrigued by Tom's project, The Cambridge Arts Council provided funding for him to do his last 10 paintings. The city now approves the posting of his artwork, and as Tom has been endorsed by the powers that be, his tone has tempered. Most importantly, the motto no longer appears...
...unmistakable figure at every conservative function, silver-haired, bright- eyed, dripping pearls and epigrams. Of all the laurels bestowed upon her in recent years, perhaps the most fitting was the Sylvanus Thayer Award, West Point's highest civilian honor, given to those who best embody the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country...