Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perturbed by this phenomenon than the President. Two years ago, on his way to the greatest popular landslide in history-helping meanwhile to pull Bobby into the Senate on his coattails-Lyndon Johnson's pockets fairly bulged with favorable polls. Now he travels lighter, for the surveys bear uniformly bad tidings for himself and for Vice President Hubert Humphrey. In Minnesota, in California, in Iowa, in Michigan, Bobby is outpolling the President by margins as large as 2 to 1, and the Vice President by even more. When
...last week (see THE NATION) received a mixed reaction among the businessmen whom it will immediately affect. Most were relieved that the President had finally taken some kind of action to cool the economy. But they also felt that, in an election year, industry had been singled out to bear the main burden imposed by Johnson's request for a suspension of the 7% investment tax credit...
Solar Heating. To Becklin and Westphal, this consistent temperature behavior suggests that the comet generated no heat, but was warmed entirely by solar radiation. Another set of observa tions seemed to bear them out: temperatures of the comet's head and tail were always identical. If the comet supplied some of its own heat, its head, or nucleus, should have been warmer...
Tireless as proselytizers and tiresome as preachers, Jehovah's Witnesses often make more enemies than converts. Currently, the made-in-America sect is facing a high degree of hostility in Greece. The Witnesses' doctrinal refusal to bear arms defies Greece's universal-conscription law, which has no provision for conscientious objection. Within the past three months, two young Greek Witnesses have been condemned to death for refusing military service...
During the civil war of 1944-49, 87 were convicted for refusing military service; two were executed. Today, at least 50 Witnesses are in prison for refusing to bear arms. Although not pacifists, the Witnesses refuse to take part in man-made wars because, as "God's ambassadors," they feel obliged to save their strength for the coming battle of Armageddon that will end world history. Greece has time and again refused the Witnesses official permits to build their "kingdom halls," and three years ago the government denied them permission to hold an international rally in Athens...