Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depict Dixy Lee Ray as a charming, inoffensive goldfinch is singularly inappropriate. A better choice would have been a grizzly bear-and with a sore...
...turned into an automaton, obeying orders and doing his work without thinking. A man's humanity is inevitably lost as he ceases to be an individual worthy of the Responsibility and the vocation entrusted to him by God. The holy torch which he was created to bear and to use in lighting the way both for his fellow men and for posterity is extinguished...
...less prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions than are many other parts of the seismically active state. Finally, as a symbol of the rugged grandeur of America's last frontier, the site had to be scenically impressive without intruding on salmon-spawning streams, bear dens or other wildlife sanctuaries...
...Last season, with most of the stars gone and the team demoralized, Oakland had a total attendance of only 495,578 (v. 2,955,087 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, top draw in the majors) and finished last in the A.L. West. That was too much for Finley to bear, and as he exited last week, he took a parting shot at Kuhn: "My having to get out of baseball dates from 18 months ago, when his highness, Bowie Kuhn, canceled my three-player deal. I needed the money very badly at that time to keep my ship afloat...
Where will it all end? Bear markets eventually give way to bull markets, and some computer-equipped analysts now think that the Dow could lumber up to 950 or even 1050 by late 1978 or early 1979. Maybe -but that sounds all too reminiscent of the wrong predictions being made a year ago, when Wall Street's mood was one of relative cheer...