Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electric golf cart, the same one in which he gave Lady Bird a few anxious moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even broader than the President's own, wrapped Lyndon in a bear-hug Mexican abrazo, while his wife planted a kiss on Lady Bird's cheek...
...idea that profits can be excessive or fixed at some "reasonable" level is among the "fallacies" plaguing the economy. A company should be allowed to charge what the market will bear, period...
...Sheremetyevo Airport. With him was Liu Shao-chi, China's President. In the flare of flashbulbs, Chou's face appeared hard and unyielding. Significantly, he was greeted by only half of Russia's new diarchy, an equally sour-faced Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There were no bear hugs for Chou, though Kosygin did bring a bouquet of flowers. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev stayed home, possibly to show that Russia was not overeager and to keep the visit a formal matter of governments, not an ideological meeting of parties...
Over a rising storm of protest from the Opposition, Wilson declared that Griffiths had won Smethwick with "an utterly squalid campaign" based on racial prejudice. Charging that the Tories would bear "a lasting brand of shame" for Sir Alec's reluctance to condemn such tactics, Wilson shouted that Griffiths should "serve his term here as a parliamentary leper." After a shocked pause, surging, howling, gesticulating M.P.s from both sides of the House silenced Wilson for 15 tumultuous minutes. Never before had a new Prime Minister stirred such hostility in the Commons. Amid shouts of "Shame!" and "Disgraceful!" 25 Opposition...
Laughless Days. Brassens, 43, known around Montparnasse as the "Bear," comes out of seclusion to sing only three months out of the year. Last week he was holding forth before jampacked audiences at Paris' Bobino Theater. He sang of the brutalities of war, the vagaries of love, the folly of politics, and the hardships of being a gravedigger ("Farewell, poor dead one; if from the bottom of the hole one sees God, tell him how much pain that last shovelful cost me"), or a streetwalker: Even though those damned bourgeois call them girls of pleasure...