Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines, and without the clever visual displays he usually presents on the show, the essays seem thin, silly, and childish. A written essay inevitably comes under closer scrutiny than a spoken one, and thus must carry more substance. Where the spoken word is fleeting, the written word must bear the pressure of close reading. Rooney makes this very point in his preface to the book, and it seems clear that he worried about whether his essays would stand up to print. In fact, the preface amounts mostly to an apology-in-advance for the rest of the book. He writes...
...myriad catalogues are something of a hodgepodge, a semblance of order is maintained by the International Astronomical Union, the organization of the world's professional astronomers. The I.A.U. not only supervises star designations but also controls the labeling of planets, moons and other heavenly bodies that traditionally bear proper names suggested by their discoverers. Thanks to an extraordinarily successful decade of solar-system exploration, the I.A.U.'s naming committees have had to work overtime. They have approved names for hundreds of topographical features-craters, mountains, plains-on 18 planets and moons, as well as for three newly discovered...
...Ford is a young head coach, who checked in for the job by winning the 1978 Gator Bowl, the same game in which Ohio State's Woody Hayes punched out. Ford played for Bear Bryant at Alabama and later coached under him. His explanation for the improvement of his team is entirely Bearlike: "I didn't make as many mistakes this year as I did last year...
...lived through two wars," said a farmer north of Warsaw, "and now I am on my third. Just let them come get my family or my land!" One elderly woman in Warsaw observed, "I thought from the beginning that the Russians would do this. They hate Poles. They cannot bear to give us a little bit of freedom, a little bit of what's our own. They will starve us." Her husband replied, "It's a generational thing. The young went too far. It had to finish this way. When you're young, you don't see the dangers...
...difference with Suez was that in 1956 the U.S., which had not been consuited, brought pressure to bear on the aggressors to give up their territorial spoils. This time around, it looked as if nothing similar could be achieved. The U.S. joined in a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution that declared the Israeli action to be "null and void" and demanded that Begin's government rescind its legislation. The resolution was not expected to have any effect, but the Council will take up the matter again no later than Jan. 5, at which time a Syrian push for more...