Word: bear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must now decide whether to shelter them at the risk of incurring Turkish wrath. Content with prosperous servitude, the village's Orthodox pope and his council turn them away, telling the town that the strangers have cholera. The pope justifies this lie as a figure of speech--the exiles bear the "cholera" of rebellion and anarchy...
...That all depends," says Katherine Kuh, "on how it is done." Muses Maxon: "In some areas of American life there is a thing called togetherness, but in museums we have each-otherness, and that is even harder to bear...
...Cuba will bear careful watching in the months ahead. It remains to be seen whether Castro can control the forces he has let loose (executions continue with increased zeal and with new capital crimes invented all the time) and, equally important, whether he can institute programs for economic and social reform which will keep him in and Communists out of power. Observers have pointed out that Cuba could prove "another Iraq," with revolution by pro-Western forces proving merely the prologue to inceased Communist control...
...group. "Even our commuting group is not representative of the nation at large in terms of income," states King. And if fewer boys at Boston Latin consider Harvard financially worthwhile, despite the school's traditional allegiance with Harvard, and despite the possibility of commuting, then needy students in Bear Creek, Montana, are probably even less willing to apply without encouragement...
...back on his feet, and made him once again a force to be reckoned with, was a series of commissions from men as highly individualistic as himself. The result was several of the buildings rated today as among the alltime greats of U.S. architecture. Among them: "Falling Water," in Bear Run, Pa., Wright's first reinforced-concrete house, in which he flung cantilevered floors dramatically out over the waterfall; the S.C. Johnson & Son Co.'s Racine, Wis. wax factory, with soaring mushroom columns in the work space and a 16-story laboratory tower completely sheathed in glass tubing...