Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans have grown old and tired," growls one French appliance maker. "They have given up and so have the Belgians. But we shall fight." So far ahead of their competition are the Italians that they bear such remarks with uncharacteristic calm...
...Viet Cong tried to overrun the 11th Armored Cavalry the same way-with far different results. Bivouacked in an open field 53 miles east of Saigon, the Americans were hit just before midnight by Viet Cong mortar and recoil-less-rifle fire. "The V.C. were loaded for bear," said U.S. Army Major David Doyle. "They were well outfitted and their equipment was new." But in a sharp, short fight, the cavalry lost only nine men, the enemy...
...during its era of "sophisticated muckraking," Curtis Publishing's Saturday Evening Post reported that Butts had revealed strategy secrets to Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant, whose Crimson Tide thereupon rolled over Georgia in their 1962 football game, 35-0. Butts sued the Post and won a judgment of $3,060,000, later reduced to $460,000 by the trial judge...
...Great Feat." Still, Walter seemed to have time on his hands. He became a teaching assistant in finance at M.I.T., won an investment contest in Harvard's Bull and Bear Club by totting up a 68% gain in four months, acted as resident tutor at his fraternity house, founded his own data-processing company, which has a contract with the First National Bank of Boston, and flew to New York City once or twice a month to work in the institutional-research department of a brokerage house, Oppenheimer & Co. As the time approached for him to get his degrees...
Splashes of Red Ink. The warning splashes of red ink on university ledgers these days amply bear him out. This year, for the first time in 15 years, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences faces an operating deficit-of about $1,000,000. Rice, the best and richest private university in the Southwest, will have a deficit of more than $950,000 this year. Princeton President Robert Goheen worries about running into the red within three years; Stanford foresees a possible $2,000,000 shortage by 1969. Unless new sources of revenue are found, Yale will be faced...