Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crews--a friend, and a close one. "It was a hard time in that land, and a lot of men did things for which they were ashamed and suffered for the rest of their lives. But they did them because of hunger and sickness and because they could not bear the sorry spectacle of their children dying for lack of a doctor and their wives growing old before they were thirty...
...Cherish public credit . . . use it as sparingly as possible . . . By vigorous exertion . . . discharge debts . . . not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden we ourselves ought to bear...
Domestic programs will bear almost the full brunt of the cuts. The U.S. took the lead last year in persuading NATO nations to increase defense spending by 3% a year in real terms. Carter will have a hard time going back on that pledge. To honor it, he will have to raise the Pentagon budget from $114.5 billion to about $126 billion in the 1980 budget. OMB Director James Mclntyre and other advisers are arguing for a smaller increase. But if Carter goes along with their pleadings, he will further erode the confidence of U.S. allies who are worried about...
...enough with this line of criticism. Thus in speaking of developing nations, he concedes that "it is time we commenced to treat them as equals, a respect to which they are entitled." Accenting the positive, he calls "for the United States deliberately and consistently to bring its influence to bear on behalf of those regimes which promise the largest degree of personal and national liberty." But it seems that for Moynihan, treating other nations as equals generally means telling them they are inferiors. Bringing influence to bear on behalf of virtuous regimes means spending one's time dressing down regimes...
Scholars have been attending the ICUS convention since 1971 with the alibi that their participation does not aid or legitimize the Unification Church. They simply enjoy the banter, they say. But these scholars are gifted with a unique body of knowledge and concomitant respect. Consequently, they must bear the responsibilities inherent in possessing this unique quality. If they do not wish to aid the goals of the Unification Church as stated in Moon's dubious dogma, they should boycott the church's cultural activities...