Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance. Healy said that Cambridge as it emerged as a center of genetic engineering and other high-technology industries would need advice on how much the city's strained housing market could bear. Another possibility, according to Healy, might be to look into reforming tax codes to take full advantage of the city's growth...
Paul William ("Bear") Bryant...
When he retired only five weeks ago as the winningest college coach of all, the gentle testimonials from North and South had the unintended timbre of eulogies. Alabama Football Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant was a man whose life's work and life could scarcely be thought of separately. He died last week at 69 from a heart attack, but really a mix of illnesses that he had been fighting for three years (heroically, said his doctor), all the while he was pursuing Pop Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg right up to his 323rd victory in the Liberty Bowl...
...Huckleberry Finn," he said. "I don't compare to them." This is how Bryant talked, and prophetic lines muttered by him over the past year or two could be repeated last week without a chill. Coming from him they were not ghoulish: they were true. What would Bear do if he ever quit coaching football? "Probably croak in a week." Where would he go? "I imagine I'd go straight to the graveyard...
...closed by saying that Mary Harmon, Bear's wife of 47 years, "sends her love." - By Tom Cailahan. Reported by BJ. Phillips/Tuscaloosa