Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despised people for their common-looking faces and the careless way they spoke. Seeing them eat made him sick. He could not bear to watch anyone eat, he said. And there were sights just as bad--watching people blow their nose, hearing them laugh, seeing their underwear on a clothesline...
...Argentina's current military rulers have overreacted to Galtieri's outspokenness, it is because they too bear responsibility for the Falklands fiasco. Buenos Aires is rife with speculation that Galtieri's arrest is only the first step in a campaign by the junta to saddle him with the Falklands failure, allowing the rest of the military establishment to escape blame. The generals, in any event, are on their way out. In a further move toward a promised return to civilian rule by early next year, the junta last week restored the political rights of 19 party...
...MIDWEEK it was known that Wickenden's midair decision was a happy one Maybe, away from the hustle and bustle of transcripts his mind cleared: maybe he couldn't bear the thought of returning to face a campus of sullen undergraduates, maybe he happened to pick up an airline magazine from the seat pocket, and Brooke's smile warmed his heart. Or he may have thought seriously, and sensibly, about the trap the committee had fallen into...
...well-known host of WBZ's morning show has been urging his listeners nearly every morning for the last year to get their state legislators to support a "lemon law" that would prevent consumers who had been sold a defective vehicle from having to bear the repair costs, and would force a manufacturer to replace a car that could not be repaired...
...this white whale proved the quest in his case unnecessary. He became a major writer without becoming a major novelist. His instinct to abandon fiction for long periods was, given his talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness he could bear to his age and its possible consequences. His energy and imagination have been aroused most keenly by doubt, the sense that every act, individual and civic, leads perilously into the unknown. Looking backward is not the job such a mind performs best, as Ancient Evenings proves. The book...