Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trophy value. At the end of a shoot, the tourist bureau tots up the value of game shot, and the hunter forks over. In the Koprivnica area of Yugoslavia last spring, a Düsseldorf status seeker shelled out $12,500 for a 660-lb. European brown bear. That was just a warmup; Koprivnica gamekeepers are carefully pampering an even bigger bruin for the same hunter to pot this fall-at a cost of $15,000. A run-of-the-hill red stag costs about $350 in Yugoslavia, but a Swiss hunter who was lucky-or unlucky-enough...
...bear no grudge against these parasites upon prediction in an era that slavers to know the future. It is not their fault that they are tolerated. Day after unchanging day, people pay to read the newspapers in which the seers spew forth their political wisdom. The people pay to read what they themselves will or may or might...
...sending his kids to college on a loan, and taking off on a fly-now-pay-later vacation, the American consumer has piled up a truly phenomenal $280 billion debt-and is rapidly adding to it. Families are up to their eaves in $190 billion worth of mortgages, also bear another $76 billion in various consumer debts. One household in two has to meet installment payments on appliances, furniture, the car or personal loans. Nearly everyone shares in the $17 billion debt burden spawned by credit cards, charge accounts, single-payment loans and other short-term credit. While their grandfathers...
Woman in the Dunes. One day a man leaves the city and wanders into the desert. He wanders alone, and over his shoulder he carries a net. He is searching, he says, for a new kind of life, for a creature that will bear his name and make him in some sense immortal. All day the solitary figure (Eiji Okada) moves among the moving sands, but he does not find what he is seeking. At sunset a stranger appears, a man at home in the desert, and leads him to a deep...
Young is executive director of the civil rights group. He described the white backlash as only a minor obstacle to civil rights. "The real barrier," he said, "is the barrier created by generations of deprivations. Any group would bear scars as a result of such an experience and the American Negro must not be ashamed of these scars...