Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message posted in the roll call room reads: "Summer uniforms as of Sunday 28 May 1989"--even now, after midnight, balmy weather makes the winter uniforms a difficult burden to bear. A lieutenant, as the graveyard-shift officers get ready to roll, gives the warning, "Let's be careful out there...
...Black people have always known that. We've had to distinguish among you because our lives depended on it. I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons...
...brands. But Italy may be producing too much of a good thing. Originally intended as a guide to superior wines, the DOC stamp of approval now appears on Parmesan cheese, prosciutto crudo, balsamic vinegar and chestnuts, all frequent fare on Italian tables. Among the other items that may soon bear the DOC label: handcrafted ceramics, Neapolitan pasta and pizza...
...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stanima of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs."-Harvard squash player George Polsky after the Crimson defeated Dartmouth...
...condemned to spend his days among libidinous soldiers, listening to their "cat-calling carnality," Lawrence came to believe that sexual desire was somehow blameworthy: "Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch...