Word: bear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before the Johnson order to make the records available to the Civil Rights Commission.) "I have no apologies for any action," Wallace said. "I am ready to face any consequences I may have to bear...
...left undismayed by your statement, "He is undismayed by the fact that many of his readers might find it hard to distinguish between his solutions and those preferred by the Kremlin [Dec. 22]." Are all solutions for resolving the cold war tension destined to automatic rejection if they bear a similarity to Soviet proposals...
...Washington forum. Sure that men now have the skill if not the wisdom for "directing our own evolutionary futures." Geneticist Beadle raised an ominous question: "Can we go on indefinitely defending as a fundamental freedom the right of individuals to determine how many children they will bear, without regard to the biological or cultural consequences...
...lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...
...director, however, must bear some responsibilty here. If an actor is to play the Fishmonger Scene sprawling in a comfortable chair, his leg thrown casually over its arm, it will not be easy for him to give the impression that he has something on his mind. Mr. Benthall has cut Hamlet's line about the murdered Polonius: "I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room"--and this is a sure sign that he intended to give us not Shakespeare's Hamlet, goaded by a magnificent saeve indignatio, but the charming exquisite foisted on us by certain critics...