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Word: beare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have relished pawing Nixon, who hated to be touched. For all Brezhnev's bulk, there was something oddly "dainty" about him, as Willy Brandt put it. Here was huge, shapeless Mother Russia dressed as a man, the androgynous nation full of bear hugs and danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Half a World Lies Open | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...Laura is very versatile." soccer coach Bob Scalise says. "Her speed enables her to bear people when she's playing offense, and to cover almost anyone on defense...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Laura Mayer | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

Those of us who have wandered through moose country do not consider these animals "as ferocious as a mouse" or dimwitted. Ranked second only to the grizzly bear as the most dangerous animal to run into in the back country, moose are not to be played with. The moose's power makes it a serious contender for king of the forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1982 | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...devastated auto industry has created a whopping 31.7% unemployment rate, former Democratic Congressman Robert Carr handily won a rematch against the Republican who upset him in 1980, Jim Dunn. "Of course this was a referendum on Reaganomics," said Carr the day after the election. "Voters don't want to bear the burden of this experiment any longer." Agreed Dunn, whose literature avoided even mentioning his Republican affiliation: "Unemployment was the No. 1 issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '82: Trimming the Sails | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Optimists among political experts suggest that the spending may be reaching a natural limit, at which point it becomes useless or even backfires on the candidates. Unhappily, the evidence does not quite bear out their theory. It is true that several of the very biggest spenders lost. Among them: Republicans William Clements and Lewis Lehrman, who shelled out around $12.5 million each on the Texas and New York gubernatorial races; Democrat Mark Dayton, a department-store heir who laid out $6.9 million in an attempt to become a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and Democrat Adam Levin, 33, a lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '82: Slinging Mud and Money | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

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