Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proverbial Bear...
...advice that Dubček [April 25] and his countrymen should have taken from Joseph Stalin: "It is not for nothing that the proverb says, 'An obliging bear is more dangerous than an enemy.' " Perhaps we should take Stalin's words a little more seriously in dealing with the Russians...
...short, the case for racial differences in innate intelligence, unproved by the ambiguous data yielded by culture-bound intelligence tests administered to contemporary populations, collapses utterly when the overall record of human achievement, as unearthed by archaeologists, is brought to bear. Race is not a correlate of innate human intelligence...
...were numbers alone," says Klein, "Saturday Evening Post would still be in business." Thus, he points out that NBC was ahead in the ratings with college graduates (19.1 to CBS's 18.3) and among families earning $15,000 or more (20.9 to 19.1). The results, in money, bear him out; NBC topped CBS in prime-time commercial billings, $212 million to $210 million; ABC booked $166 million. In around-the-clock billings, however, CBS clung to first place, with $387 million to NBC's $366 million and ABC's $278 million...
...just smoked mind-altering drugs. Think of it what you will. But if you want to "get something out of it," notice the way each idea in the story is attached only to its own moment. Images and events more than two sentences apart in this story bear no relation to each other. The mind-altered writer exists in the instant of his awareness. As you read the story, you will probably not be able to remember anything you've read longer ago than the previous sentence (don't try to); you, too, will have an understanding that is limited...