Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This odd proposal is really, according to the anonymous Cliffie, a protest against the college. Radcliffe has refused to let her to move off-campus next year, because she won't turn 21 until February. She can't bear living in the brick dormitories and feels she needs the privacy of an apartment to write an honors thesis in History and Literature...
...Harvard fan, happily bear-besotted, climbed onto the roof of the Navy dugout in the fifth inning and began to bellow Hamlet's "To be or not to be" Soliloquy. A Navy player retaliated by dousing him with several cups of water. The orator wobbled back to his seat and contented himself with spraying passages from Shakespeare indiscriminately at the Middics and the umpires...
...didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without any fuss, but I couldn't bear to part with my eyelids. So, holding my "face" in one hand, I began to demolish the project with a hammer in the other. Pieces near my eyes broke off, and Bette sliced away blindly with a pair of scissors, shearing off my eyelashes. Once I could see, I was able...
...widow of Journalist Charles Wertenbaker, whose illness from terminal cancer and ultimate suicide she chronicled with cloying intimacy in Death of a Man (TIME, April 1, 1957). In this novel about a kindly abortionist and his heterogeneous clientele, she argues that a woman should never have to bear a baby that she doesn't want. There may well be sound arguments in support of this proposition, but they get lost in the wash of a tendentious soap opera...
...Lampoon has given Natalie the worst actress prize "for this year, next year, and the following year" thereby retiring the award, which now will bear Miss Wood's name when it is given to other actresses...