Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibility that additional defense expenditures may be needed in anticipation of, or to forestall, war. Constitutional amendments, like art, should imitate life, or at least bear some working relationship...
...letters span 44 terrible years, from Revolution and Red Terror through the great purges and war. The correspondents were cousins, akin in blood, spirit and culture: Olga, the distinguished classical scholar, and Boris, one of Russia's greatest modern poets. Of Pasternak's letters the most revealing bear upon Doctor Zhivago...
...provocative books that go a long way toward explaining both the Reagan landslide and the political division that has been its ironic consequence: The New Class War, by leftist political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, and Post-Conservative America, by conservative commentator Kevin Phillips. Both works bear the ideological imprint of their authors; but both are also tough-minded and refreshingly iconoclastic examinations of the social forces that are shaping American politics...
...arrest for making treasonous broadcasts, the mad poet bids a venomous farewell to "poor old Hugh Selwyn Mauberley-arse-eyed traitor to the whole world!" Indeed, the fleeing Mauberley presents a threat to both Axis and Allies: he has seen atrocities on both sides and he is ready to bear witness...
...unexpected dimension. Daniel's brother Albert, a Marine Corps officer, offers advice that goes beyond the usual gung-ho justifications. "Your private longing may be to live," he writes, "but that counts for nothing. You cannot escape the world and its public longing . . . You must bear the world. I do. I bear it less well in peace than in war, because I know that we destroy ourselves more in peace than in war, and in war you are allowed to hate...