Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complications faced during the most recent stage of Harvard's ambitious renovation project, we find no reason to believe that the current unacceptable situation could not have been avoided by some relatively simple actions. Of course, students are expected to understand the reasonable limitations of the situation and to bear some of the burden; we are, after all, members of the Harvard community and have corresponding responsibilities...
...postage stamp was abolished in Germany, owing to the cost of printing being greater than the face value of the stamps. Hereafter German letters will bear a cancellation indicating that postage has been paid. The lightest letter from Germany costs, at the present rate of exchange, 200,000 marks to deliver...
Artie answered right back with 28 pages of tart countersuit. Kathleen, he charged, had refused to bear children ("Children have always enslaved women") and had even suggested an operation which, as the N.Y. Daily News gleefully phrased it, would have made him "forever sterile." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...
...dreamland, very few people wish to believe in wholly dark visions either, not only because such visions run counter to human buoyancy, bul because one cannot stare indefinitely at broken objects without feeling an urge to mend them. History encompasses neither utopia nor hell. It squats like a bear and dares the world to move it No visions of light or darkness are necessary. Only a steady concentration on the world we made, and will make again-this year, next year and the year after...
...KENTUCKY CRAFTS," the sign says. "You'll come to love them." A stuffed white teddy bear and a blue and white checkered tablecloth adorned the billboard. Not surprisingly, this encouragement to the local economy bears the name of Gov. John Y. Brown. But it also carries the endorsement of Phyllis George Brown, CBS sportscaster, former Miss America and wife of the governor. More than just advertising the products, however, the first lady is also continuing a surprising recent tradition of women active in politics in the South...