Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NATIONAL HEATH CARE, since back in the '40s, has been an issue that politicians campaign on, moralists moralize on, and legislators sit on. Recent developments bear witness to this, mainly because there have been so few recent developments to speak...
...conference was run with more efficiency and dispatch, more zest and panache than most conventions dominated by men. There was an infectious mood of ebullience that made women open, communicative and tolerant of slights. Never far out of camera range, stalking the podium like some watchful mother bear anxious for her brood, Bella Abzug mellowed considerably for the occasion. She even joked about the Congressman who scoffed that the girls had gone to Houston for boozing and carousing. Abzug's zinging putdown: "I have attended many meetings, but I have never heard any women ask for call boys...
...befuddled defenders for a crucial reception, the runts have provided some of the most thrilling moments in a season of slogging defensive domination. Among the best: the Houston Oilers' Billy ("White Shoes") Johnson (5 ft. 9 in., 170 Ibs.) of the end-zone victory dance, scooting past Chicago Bear defenders, then performing the N.F.L.'s first dwarf dunk-a triumphant spike over the goal posts. The Baltimore Colts' Howard Stevens (5 ft. 5 in., 162 Ibs. and the smallest man in the N.F.L.), the Nureyev of the sidelines, dancing beyond the grasp of lumbering would-be tacklers...
...bragged, "there were only two men ready-me and Proudhon." The 1871 revolution found him on the side of the Paris Commune, which called for the demolition of that symbol of "false glory," the Vendome Column. Later, the Commune crushed, a vengeful state passed a law to make Courbet bear the cost of restoring the column. Bankrupt, he fled to Switzerland and died in exile in 1877. There is always room for argument over the extent of Courbet's realism. The man who insisted on setting down the bald truth of visual experience, from a drunken priest...
...boycott--one that lasted so long many people forgot why they were boycotting--has finally begun to bear fruit...