Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freely admitting her role in the affair, Lady Fleming told the court: "I could not bear the thought that he was being inhumanly tortured in jail." Why did she do it? Friends said she was convinced that Panaghoulis was a tyrannoktonos (in the ancient Greek sense, a man who kills a tyrant) and was therefore "the conscience of Greece" and had to be saved...
...added this slender volume of eleven essays of French, English and American Proustians collected by English Biographer and Critic Peter Quennell. The book is splendidly illustrated with a variety of period images ranging from lady bicyclists to Sarah Bernhardt reclining amid pillows, fringes and a polar bear...
...flat-bed letterpress, our deadlines are slightly earlier. We hope to avoid the slanted columns and chopped-off letters of most offset college papers by maintaining a professional shop to do our paste-up, but if, like our Fogg friend, you've noticed some problems, please bear with...
...movement led by Carl MacIntyre and George Wallace--still feel that Calley has gotten a raw deal, and that his courtmartial was not a good idea. It is the children of the poor and of the lower middle class who fight the war, die in it, and bear its scars; the people who sympathize with Calley do so, in large part, because they have known men who have been faced with decisions like Calley...
Finally Hirohito came to the point. In his reedy voice, he said that he had come "to bear sole responsibility for every political and military decision made and action taken by my people in the conduct of war." On that basis he was subject to the death penalty. In his Reminiscences MacArthur confessed that he was "moved to the very marrow of my bones." Wrote the general: "He was an Emperor by inherent birth, but in that instant I knew I faced the First Gentleman of Japan in his own right...