Word: beare
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...N.R.A. is predictably alarmed, calling the Morton Grove bans "the most dangerous attack ever staged against the right to keep and bear arms." The 2 million-member group and a smaller gun lobby based in Washington State have financed four lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the ownership prohibition. But the village government is sticking to its guns, mounting court defenses of the law with the help of a $15,000 subsidy from the National Coalition to Ban Handguns...
...juice and water on Dec 25, despite the opposition of Pyotr and the Christian teaching against suicide. Lidiya joined her three days later. When Historian Kent Hill of Seattle Pacific University flew to Moscow, Lidiya told him, "Here I am with no end in sight. I can't bear it. If I can't have a normal life, I'd sooner...
...fear of rejection, a fear of love. "I was taught all the common Christian virtues," he recalls, "like abstinence, renunciation, docility, patience, and, most important of all, a clear denial of almost all aspects of life. In other words, I was taught not to enjoy life but to bear it without complaint, not to be sinful but to be frustrated ... That is my life. I grew up in the best and most intact and most harmonious and most sterile and most hypocritical of all worlds...
Reassembly of the interior was a more detailed and painstaking work. Bear heads, for instance, were carved on newel posts, faithful to an old photograph and to a few pieces of the original stairway which were found in a Sacramento church. The mint-green assembly chamber now dazzles visitors with its crystal chandeliers and 1870s carved desks. The smaller but richer senate chamber blushes with rose carpeting and brocade drapery. Nine other rooms, including offices of former Governors, have been restored as an exhibit at a cost of $1.7 million...
...beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds." In the flashbacks arising from Ryder's bittersweet memories, Sebastian gives long, champagne-inspired lunches in his rooms and, in an extravagant undergraduate fantasy, carries with him everywhere a large Teddy bear named Aloysius. Charles and Sebastian form a strong attachment and probably-although the relationship is kept behind its own screen of boskage in both the book and the series-become lovers...