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Word: beare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really wanted to redeem myself for those walks in the first game," Forman said. "They really turned the game around. I didn't want to walk anyone, so I tried to bear down, get them to hit some ground balls and just throw strikes...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Batsmen Split Twinbill Against Boston College | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

Ehrenreich emphasized that antiabortionists have been solely interested in preserving fetuses, rather than the women who bear them...

Author: By Mallika J. Marshall, | Title: Prominent Feminist Scholar Defends Abortion Rights | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

...answer, in part, goes back to the famous Second Amendment of the American Constitution, which the N.R.A. keeps brandishing like Holy Writ. "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," it reads, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...pointedly, their experience -- distrusted standing armies. They associated British ones with tyranny and lacked the money and manpower to create their own. Without a citizens' militia, the Revolution would have failed. Does the Constitution let you have the second half of the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, without the first part, the intended use of those arms in the exercises and, when necessary, the campaigns of a citizens' militia to which the gun owner belongs -- as in Switzerland today? That is still very much a subject for legal debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...Dick and Harriet with a barnful of MAC-10s, Saturday night specials and AK-47s than, in writing the First Amendment, they had in mind the protection of child-porn video, which did not exist in the 18th century either. Nowhere does the Constitution say the right to bear arms means the right to bear any or all arms. Which arms is the real issue. At present, firepower has outstripped the law's power to contain it within rational limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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