Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of Edward Kennedy as a plot to remove one more hope. "Just like King and Bobby Kennedy," says Pfc. Carl Horsley, 19, "They gon' try to hang Teddy 'cause he was on the side of the brothers." To most black soldiers, Nixon doesn't even bear discussion. "If he were a brother," says Ronald Washington, a black sailor from Los Angeles, "he'd be the number one Uncle...
...Israelis, the situation along the Suez Canal front was the most worrisome of all. There the unremitting attacks by President Nasser's Russian-trained gunners and snipers as well as occasional Egyptian commando forays were taking a toll greater than Israel felt it could bear. In the past month alone, 21 Israelis died in such attacks. The Israelis felt that they must reply somehow...
...well as a defense. Represented by his own law firm, he filed what is potentially the most explosive libel suit against a magazine since 1963, when former Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts sued the Saturday Evening Post for a story saying that he conspired with Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant to fix a Georgia-Alabama football game.* Alioto demanded $7,500,000 in actual damages and $5,000,000 in punitive damages, arguing that "the editorial management of Look met and agreed, in order to increase circulation, advertising revenues and profits, to adopt a reckless policy of sensationalism...
...harsh but strangely lovely land, home mainly to the grizzly, polar bear, wolverine, caribou, fox, Dall sheep and countless geese and ducks. Mushy and mosquito-plagued in summer, the North Slope area of Alaska is so cold in winter that metals become brittle and men work at a fraction of their normal efficiency. Yet, during the past year, a 140-mile-wide strip of this inhospitable country bordering the Beaufort Sea was the scene of frantic activity as more than a dozen big oil companies conducted seismic tests and drilled exploratory holes in preparation for Alaska's "Great...
...been able to stay, as an existential being crying out against an oppressive world I did not really hope to change. And then I would have been justified in quoting Camus. True, one must imagine Sisyphus happy, but only while he experiences "boundless grief" which is "too heavy to bear...