Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know of an abused wife whose children were forced to stand by helplessly or huddle cringing in their beds while her husband beat her. They all bear mental scars from it today...
...sees the case as another example of his father's inability to protect himself. In a way, he finds Alger Hiss to be the perfect fall guy--a loyal and decent man unable to use in his own defense some of the same weapons his enemies have brought to bear against him. There is little bitterness or handwringing on Tony Hiss's part; the thesis of his book is that rather than destroying or humiliating Alger Hiss, adversity has brought out his best qualities. It is a mixed picture though. "People who have an explanation for Al's behavior these...
Coach Lee, correctly anticipating the sad state of the Bruin wrestlers, inserted five members of the Crimson J.V. squad (Jim Kaller, George Letsui, Brian Adler, Doug Mason, and Craig Beling,) into his line-up of bear-baiters...
...State Department, there was concern that Carter's pressure to help the Soviet dissidents (see THE WORLD) might have two adverse effects: 1) push the Kremlin to bear down even harder on its restive citizens to show that it is not influenced by outside "interference in its internal affairs" and 2) so sour the atmosphere between the two countries that any arms agreement would be scuttled. Whether by coincidence or design, the Russians arrested Yuri Orlov, a dissident physicist, within 24 hours after the Carter press conference...
...researchers then went further by testing volunteers to see whether smoking eases stress. On the assumption that the more anxious a person is, the less pain he will tolerate, groups of smokers and nonsmokers were asked to endure as much electric shock as they could bear. Smokers proved to be sissies when deprived of cigarettes or given only low-nicotine brands. Those supplied with armloads of high-nicotine brands to smoke accepted a higher number of shocks-but no more than the control group of nonsmokers. Schachter's conclusion: "Smoking doesn't reduce anxiety or calm the nerves...