Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insurance is not adequate, Union Oil will presumably have to bear the brunt of the claims. Conceivably, Union could fight back by entering a countersuit against the British government for, of all things, piracy. Although British fighter planes bombed the ship "in defense of the realm," the Torrey Canyon at the time was actually outside British territorial waters...
...student, who will be selected by the Window Shop from two or three nominated by EFA, will bear the title of Margaret Earhart Smith Scholar, in honor of the first president of the Window Shop, a Radcliffe Trustee...
...tentative theory now being investigated is that the isolated flies may have been infected in some way that caused sterility with other strains. In any case, the new species is only in an incipient stage. The "new Llanos" females, when mated with males of the related strains, can still bear fertile female offspring. Until they no longer can, the species will not be fully distinct. A new generation is born every two weeks, and Dr. Dobzhansky and his colleagues will be closely watching to see how the species evolves...
Died. Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, 68, the Soviet Union's Minister of Defense since 1957; of cancer; in Moscow. Short, grizzled, gruff, Malinovsky looked like the original Russian bear-and played the part to perfection. As a heavy-fisted soldier, he took part in the World War II defense of Stalingrad, commanded the advance through Rumania and Hungary to Vienna, and finally Russia's "one-week war" against Japan. As a Communist, he was the perfect, unquestioning Party member, who survived all purges, obediently reined in the army when Khrushchev opted for fewer guns and more butter, then...
...Commission, the funds bought and sold a record $19.7 billion worth of stock-nearly as much as in the two previous years combined. Fund managers, who switched only 19% of their stock holdings in 1965, last year shuffled 32% of their portfolios to make the best of the long bear market...