Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explore the feasibility of cooperating with the Chinese in supplying arms to the rebel forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. The challenge Haig faced was a delicate one: moving toward greater rapprochement with Peking while steering clear of a formal alliance that would rattle the cage of the Soviet bear...
...future prospects for Soviet-Polish cooperation. To no less an extent, we are disturbed by the fact that the offensive by antisocialist enemy forces in Poland threatens the interests of our entire commonwealth and the security of its borders - yes, our common security. The Polish party thus not only bears a historic responsibility for the fate of its own country; comrades, you also bear an enormous responsibility for the common interests of the socialist commonwealth...
...survive to bear witness to these unspeakable happenings? In his moving introduction to her book, the German Nobel-prizewinning novelist Heinrich Böll notes that though many shared Ginzburg's experience, "very few can narrate it, even fewer can write about it, and it is these few who transform personal experience into testimony." Ginzburg tells us that her book was the "main object" of her life in captivity. Like Solzhenitsyn she committed names, facts and events to memory by incorporating them into long rhymed poems that she could more easily memorize...
...example, or the members of the National Rifle Association (who all write the same letter), or the people with urgent messages for public figures, which are usually written in green ink on triangular Kleenex. These are the extreme compulsives. But there are many calmer citizens, as well, who cannot bear to leave the stationery stationary, and thus get themselves into deep trouble. President Reagan's son Mike was among these recently when he wrote a letter soliciting military contracts, and dropped his father's name. The President advised him: "Don't write any letters." Much wisdom...
...school is still short of funds, they will have to scale down the initial building plans or petition the Corporation for an extension. Either way, administrators will be forced to trim their dreams, and the current site, by their accounts already bursting at the seams, will have to bear the burden a bit longer. "Elements of the program will suffer, but the world won't come to an end." Allison says, adding current programs will not suffer...