Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little-known source of Government income: royalties from commercial use of the U.S. Forest Service's Smokey the Bear symbol on such products as T shirts and belt buckles, which have been increasing by $8,000 a year, now bring in $43,000 annually...
...Aran, Louisiana Story. With the perspective of half a century, the works retain their stature, and the figure of Flaherty is magnified in time. In The Innocent Eye, Biographer Arthur Calder-Marshall depicts Flaherty as an extravagant example of an extravagant type: the artist-adventurer. A great shaggy polar bear of a man with ice-blue eyes and a smile that blazed like a swallowed sun, he created a life as splendid...
...sort of anti-inflationary formula. They tied wage and price increases to productivity. Recalls a member of Kennedy's council: "One of our main purposes was to show how both wages and prices are related to productivity so that the force of public opinion could be brought to bear when either a company or a union disregarded the relationship." The formula was based on the idea that no union should make contract demands amounting to a wage increase of more than 3.2% a year, and that no industry should raise prices by more than 3.2% in any given year...
...Bengal, taking umbrage at the swaggering economic imperialism of the British, marched on Fort William, the East India Company's stronghold in the brawling boom town of Calcutta. There were 50,000 regulars in the Nawab's army, and in the fort only 515 Europeans able to bear arms -such arms as were available. Thanks to Governor Roger Drake, a 34-year-old ineffectual, fifty cannon were rusted useless, and almost all the powder was too damp to burn...
...though admittedly a limited one--in human affairs. Holmes over-reacted to the naive beliefs in REASON and TRUTH of his opponents on the Court, and went to the other extreme in denying any corrective powers to the Court. Levinson argues that the Court might bring some reason to bear in bolstering democratic values against the attack of a faint-hearted public, preserving the "rule of law," and protecting long-range values when other branches are more concerned with immediate expediencies...