Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colossal, indeed catastrophic damage." Schlesinger is just as appalled at the prospect of such an exchange, but he argues that a limited war with tactical nuclear weapons must be seriously considered and planned for. "What we need," he has said, "is a series of measured responses to aggression that bear some relation to the provocation [and] have prospects of terminating hostilities before general nuclear war breaks...
...that offensive line, anchored by Tom "da Beef" Benneditto--"the skinny man on the squad," Byrne says--and Bob "the Bear" Murray, have sent chills down the spines of other House defensive front fours...
...thicket and coconut groves 20 miles south of Mexico's swank Acapulco resort on the Pacific. Then in 1968, Dallas multimillionaire Troy V. (for Victor) Post, newly enriched by the sale of his Greatamerica Corp. to Ling-Temco-Vought for $500 million, brought his genius and fortune to bear on the wasteland. Before long he had transformed it into an earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a discotheque and a restaurant that served Mexico's finest French food...
When the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency tried to sabotage Harvard's answer to the energy crisis by threatening to turn off aid to an accompanying housing project, that agency's director had to bear the full wrath of the Univerity. It wasn't long before he capitulated...
...coffee cup. They march to a canting faith that "religion (though not perhaps as we know it) is the coming thing," that "the clergy (though not perhaps as we know them) are the coming men." As if the counterculture crusaders were not cross enough for the old guard to bear, ignoramuses and half believers are constantly at work. In one story a bus driver's wife has an old-fashioned vision of Our Lady, more or less transfigured out of a tree. Her reported message to the world: "Keep Minnesota green...