Word: beare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch...
...scene of last spring's fiery riots, Brixton was staging a fair to raise funds for a local, racially mixed school. Dressed in a turquoise coatdress and squired by beaming Expectant Father Prince Charles, Diana was greeted with an impromptu baby shower. Among the gifts: a Teddy bear, a toy corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip...
...easy, perhaps, as to invoke the response of the implacable American liberal and to call American aid to El Salvador emblematic of "another Vietnam" a military embroilment in a national conflict the United States has no purpose pushing. Trite perhaps, for the troubles of the Salvadoran people might bear little or no similarity to those that plagued millions in Vietnam. But until we can hear their voices, telling us who is right and who is wrong in El Salvador, no other response seems quite as sane...
...German officer attempting to round up Jews for a march, saying, "If you want to take them, you will have to shoot me first." If Eichmann was the kind of man who could relish the anguished pain of millions of people, Wallenberg was a man who could not bear to witness the pain of one individual. It seems as though Wallenberg--who, as a well-to-do Gentile, could have sat through the war in comparative comfort in Sweden--felt personally responsible for helping the Jews. Before he left on his mission to Budapest, according to Bierman, he told...
...last week prior to ratification by workers and trucking companies. Cost of living increases have been cut from twice a year to once a year. A portion of the workers' inflation adjustment will be used to pay for health and welfare benefits; at present the trucking companies bear the entire cost. The union is also reported to have agreed in some cases to drop an expensive work rule that required longdistance truck drivers to bring freight to terminals for separate delivery by city drivers...