Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While we are prepared for the possibility of a President's death, we are all but defenseless against the probability of a President's incapacity by injury, illness, senility or other affliction. A nation bearing the responsibilities we are privileged to bear for our own security -and the security of the free world-cannot justify the appalling gamble of entrusting its security to the immobilized hands or uncomprehending mind of a Commander in Chief unable to command...
...Chicago, a day laborer walked into a pet shop and walked out with a black bear. A store in suburban Seattle is advertising a special on baby elephants (two for $9,998 and one free). A terrified Boston girl bought a five-foot indigo snake as a wedding gift for her fiance. Hunter Nick Del Duca, in Canyon City, Colo., has orders for six Colorado mountain lion cubs at $150 apiece, and can sell as many more as he can catch...
...therefore," he said later, in words as noble as were ever spoken under stress, "brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour...
This howler was overshadowed by the plan he introduced shortly afterward for exchanging scholars with other nations. The Government-financed scholarships still bear his name and, complains one Senator, "a lot of people think Bill pays for them out of his own pocket...
...first woman vice president. Picked as Bonwit Teller of Philadelphia's president in 1958, she revived a dying downtown store with arresting windows and lavish interiors, raised sales 26.6%. Admiring Philadelphia merchants named her 1963's "Man of the Year"-one of the crosses successful women must bear. Says she: "There isn't room for a husband and children in the kind of job I have. Retailing is a full-time...