Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother bear and her cubs cup the air in their paws, warily sniffing the scent of a passing boat. Schools of porpoises and killer whales gambol in the offshore depths. From dense, wet cedar trees comes the heavy smell of primeval forest as the boat moves past the maze of islands, deep-cut fjords and ice-hung mountains that make up British Columbia's spectacular coastline. Last week, with the inauguration of the new $7,000,000 Queen of Prince Rupert car ferry, the whole coastline became readily accessible for the first time to U.S. tourists bound for Alaska...
...administration. Our arrests for gambling and vice violations have tripled in the past two years. Both the mayor and the chief of police have recently appeared before the Lake County Liquor Board asking the board not to renew liquor licenses for taverns frequented by known prostitutes. This is unprecedented. Bear in mind that law enforcement authorities must work within the framework of the law. To "know" a woman is a prostitute is one thing; to be able to produce evidence of prostitution that will justify arrest and conviction is quite another...
Another factor in Pike's decision may well have been the suicide of his eldest son last February, giving him a burden of sorrow to bear on top of his heavy duties. Under the circumstances, it is almost certain that the House of Bishops will let Pike go. Some prelates, in fact, will be delighted to see him leave the active hierarchy, since he has persistently outraged colleagues with his unconventional theological views. Pike has expressly denied the Incarnation, the Trinity, the Virgin birth and the physical resurrection of Christ...
...determine the ideal breeding conditions. Ross is making 73 shrews reproduce under various controlled laboratory conditions -- different types of cages, different numbers of animals per cage, different lighting. The experiments, stared in March, will begin to bear fruit in mid May when the shrews' gestation period ends. But Ross believes it will take about a year to determine a solution to the mass-breeding question...
...General Thi openly agreeing and much of I Corps in rebellion against Saigon's control, Thich Tri Quang prepared this week to fly back home as a "peace envoy" to Hué, where lies his chief strength. Whether as peace envoy or missionary of discontent, he will more and more bear on his slim and restless shoulders the welfare and continued viability of South Viet...