Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration officials have begun to doubt whether they would be sufficient to achieve U.S. aims in Viet Nam. Those aims are to provide security for the people of South Viet Nam as they try to build a nation, and to try to bring enough pressure and pain to bear on the Communists to force them to come to the negotiating table-or quietly de-escalate the war. All of these aims require a continuing U.S. momentum of success on the battlefields, and of late that momentum unfortunately has flagged. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker frankly told McNamara: "The enemy offensive has been...
...only flaw was the absence of recording microphones to preserve the occasion. "I can't bear the thought that it wasn't recorded," wrote one stricken Paris critic. "If anything should survive after us, it should be such moments...
...four weeks of birth) deaths with those of 16,377 live births that occurred in Britain in the first week of March 1958. The results: pregnant women who are moderate smokers (one to nine cigarettes a day) are 20.8% more likely than the average of all pregnant women to bear dead babies or babies who die soon, and heavy smokers (ten cigarettes a day or more) are 25.9% more likely...
...Schubert Sonata in c also evidenced an intensive study of the score. Unfortunately, Schubert does not bear the same kind of analysis as Beethoven. As in Opus 109, Shure was careful to clarify every counter-voice, phrase-grouping, and point of articulation. This had the regrettable effect of making Schubert's structural joinings even more obvious than they are. Shure took the piece too seriously, not leaving room for enough of that Vienese Gemutlich and Empfindsamkeit that are Schubert, special charms. Shure's performance had plenty of pianissimo but not enough sparkle...
...about every chestnut: for one reason or another it is dearly loved and long performed. The reason for The Lady's long and happy life is its language. Christpoher Fry has a Chinanman's fascination for high-meaning word plays, mixed with an Irishman's compulsive wit. He cannot bear to write a line, for even the lowliest of characters, which is not pure honey. The flow of mellifluous banter carries the play along, and on it floats truth after home truth. Few writers and fewer playwrights can mix colloquial expressions with genuine poetry as smoothly as can Christophesr...