Word: beare
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Once man knows more precisely just what the weather is going to do and where, he can not only prepare for it but bring to bear his modern tools to dissipate its force, change its course or moderate its impact. Silver-iodide seeding has revived its once-faltering reputation, and many future plans revolve around seeding everything from tornadoes to typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing...
Senior members of the generation, now in their 50s, bear some added marks. "We were the Depression people," explains one. "In a way, we have the good-natured gaiety of survivors." Together they make up the generation of the middle years, of the flexible mind, the resilient spirit and the high heart. It has the assurance of having been tested and not found wanting. In its quenchless vitality, it drinks up the golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life. It is invisible because it defies chronology. It measures age not by a date on a calendar...
...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS by Carl Bakal. 392 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed...
When the Founding Fathers wrote Article II of the Bill of Rights, they considered that the right to bear arms was eminently sensible for a sober people who had to tame a raw land with hundreds of perilous frontiers. The U.S. of 1966 has no marauding Redcoats or redskins, but it still has plenty of guns. Firearms can be bought by any kook or crook in Maryland pawnshops, in Texas sporting-goods stores or from any one of hundreds of mail-order houses-as the assassination of President Kennedy tragically illustrated...