Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former employer, the father of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. In this play, more nearly than in any other dramatic work of Pirandello's, the naked truth is exposed, but it destroys the heroine since mankind lacks the strength to bear...
...self-help that Lyndon Johnson had so effectively implanted in the face-to-face sessions. Breaking his custom of addressing his countrymen only once a year, Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz went on the radio as soon as he returned home to stress that Latin America must bear the chief responsibility for its own future. Said President Fernando Belaunde Terry to his fellow Peruvians: "The declaration of Punta del Este is only the score. Success will depend on how we play...
Costa is also a man of vigor and passion. A hardy, 200-pounder who keeps fit doing knee bends and arm exercises, he once gave a bear-hug abraco to an old army chum and cracked two of the officer's ribs. He is just as good at cracking knuckles. When, as commander of the military, he finally accepted the dinner invitation of a particularly insistent congressional deputy, he arrived at an opulent apartment on Copacabana beach, watched silently after dinner while his host showed off a gallery of possessions: 50 suits, 25 pairs of shoes, bulky silverware...
Except for pressure brought to bear on the Treasury Department and Congress by lobbyists for the tax-free publications, the IRS would probably have issued its ruling years ago. Even now, the Revenue Service plans to hold additional public hearings in order to enable opponents to repeat their arguments before the new rules go into effect. This might take another six months or more. The head of the A.M.A.'s legal department, for one, has already announced that it will argue against the regulation. The closemouthed National Geographic Society has declined to comment, but society officials said earlier that...
T.S.ELIOT once said of Samuel Johnson that, solely on the basis of his poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes," he could be considered a major poet. Johnson's poem appeared as a twenty-eight page leaflet in 1749, and was the first of his published works to bear his name on the title page. Obviously he had no previous reputation as a poet, nor do most people remember him as one, though Boswell somewhere speaks of Johnson as "perpetually a poet" (a statement intended to refer to his quality of mind. The only two poems which appear to have survived...