Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory of the ideal examination seems to bear little relation to the realities of examination practice. In answering the questionnaire, not more than half a dozen students mentioned the teaching function of exams. Most of the students favoring the present system emphasized benefits arising from reading-period preparation, rather than the actual process of examination writing. Some felt that without the threat of an examination, they would never have completed the reading list. For others, last-minute studying helped draw together the various materials covered during the term. Those pursuing the second line of reasoning rarely mentioned that the experience...
...referendum, but does so by a massive margin, "my task will be ended, immediately and irrevocably." De Gaulle concluded: "But if, as I hope, as I am sure, you answer me yes once more, then I shall be confirmed by all of you in the burden I bear...
...Canal Zone, which Teddy Roosevelt leased from Panama in 1903. The only living member of the Isthmian Canal Commission responsible for digging the waterway, Thatcher served five terms as a U.S. Congressman from Kentucky, had a powerful voice in canal legislation. Thatcher Highway and Thatcher Ferry in the zone bear his name, and last week Thatcher was pleased by a third honor: he arranged to have a new bridge named Thatcher Ferry Bridge. But in so doing, the old man touched off angry new sparks between the U.S. and the sensitive little Republic of Panama...
...time Perkins gets to Greece, Mercouri is desperate. His ardor for her has cooled; he feels she has tricked him into coming to visit his father; she can no longer bear for Vallone to touch her. She watches as Perkins' affection for his father grows, shutting her out of their lives. Lurking always in the background is the sinister figure of her maid, a mannish mystic possessing an unnatural affection for her mistress. The maid warns Mercouri: "Put that boy out of your heart or everything will fall...
...disagreed with the President it would create "an embarrassment that no patriotic American would want the President to bear," Lodge said. He maintained that Massachusetts needs a Senator "who can embarrass the Administration into giving us our proper share" of space contracts...