Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Assay Offices in New York City or San Francisco with envelopes containing exactly 0.77 of a "fine troy" ounce of silver crystals, worth a dollar at the official monetary rate for silver: $1.29 per oz. Collectors will be hard put to trade up their value -they will bear no identifying marks of any kind...
...gravest mistakes was to underestimate his antagonist, bear-shaped District Attorney Henry Menasco Wade. Belli referred to him as a yokel and a hog caller. But Wade's slow twangy drawl and furrowed face camouflage a tough, sharp mind. Under Wade, says a veteran Texas trial lawyer, Dallas County has "the toughest prosecution in the state of Texas." During the trial, Wade made a sparrow-and-peacock contrast with Belli; he played the earnest, rumpled country boy v. the gaudy city slicker, complete with red velvet briefcase. And Wade certainly knew that in the eyes of a Texas jury...
...construction and operation of the new Canal were directed by the OAS, the waterway would serve as more than a boon to shipping and a means of ending the persistent hassles caused by the Panama Canal. The United States would have to bear most of the costs, and would deserve most of the revenues. Provisions for military security might be hard to arrange, but would also be much less critical than they are at the Panama Canal, where a few sticks of dynamite could knock a lock out of operation for months...
...Some of you think you've come to a circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...
...earth"-the stranger being the American consciousness. America both fascinated and infuriated Lawrence, and his famed Studies in Classic American Literature was shrill, derisive, but continuingly provocative. The Symbolic Meaning, a collection of earlier versions of the same essays, is considerably calmer in tone, but both versions bear the unmistakable stamp of Lawrence's chaotic, irascible mind. He saw the underlying theme of U.S. literature as the "disintegration of the primal self." "On the top it is nice as pie, goody-goody and lovey-dovey. Like Hawthorne being such a blue-eyed darling, in life, and Longfellow...