Word: beare
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...close to this beachfront vaudeville as Mars and Saturn are to Pluto (the Disney dog, not the planet). It hardly matters. All of the productions, from Something Wicked This Way Comes to The Martian Chronicles, are portions sawed from a long plank called Bradbury. Brief or full length, they bear the characteristic fine grain, knots, splinters and warps...
Nature should have told him that when he heads south from Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco. Instead, the 40-ton, 40-ft. humpback whale turned left and headed inland under the Golden Gate Bridge. For more than a week he has been swimming aimlessly in the shallow Sacramento River delta 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, a freshwater environment that eventually may kill the giant saltwater mammal...
After wrapping a few of the 'shmen in bear hugs, and striking one ("I didn't see that," Johnson said), the policemen decided to give up and let the freshmen do their thing...
Under federal law, "it is illegal to put anything in a post box that doesn't bear postage," said Lisa DeVincenzo, a spokesman for the Boston branch of the federal postal system. Such violations of postal regulations are subject to $300 fines, she said...
...Arthur M. Sackler Museum here at Harvard is the fourth institution to bear his name, the other three being the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Arthur M. Sackler Health Communications Center at the Tufts University Medical Center in downtown Boston...