Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headline is, back in the classified section of the Atlantic Monthly, along with those two-line ads for items like "Cookie Beef Stew" and pleas for companionship from "caring" bachelors who love long walks and Mantovani. Under the headline is a fat, two-column come-on from the Bear Creek Corp. In Medford, Ore. In the country round Medford, it declares, "trees outnumber people." The place is "15 minutes from Ashland (home of the summer Shakespearean Festival) in the valley of the Rogue River, beloved by demented steelhead and salmon anglers. Excellent skiing, hiking, boating and swimming at your back...
...force might have resulted in the death of the hostages, it might well have led to a superpower confrontation with the Soviet Union, it might have pushed Iran into the Soviet sphere and-most troublesome of all-the U.S. probably could not have brought enough sustained military force to bear in the region to get the job done...
Exhausted but triumphant, the three men were the first to deplane from one of the Air Algerie Boeing 727s that bore the hostages from Tehran to Algiers. There they were greeted with grateful bear hugs by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria Ulric Haynes Jr., the Americans with whom they had worked so closely in the frantic last days of bargaining...
Princeton coach Norm Peck and Crimson assistant Mark Panarese retired to the locker room to await the final results--the pressure had proved too great to bear. The opponents commiserated watching the decisive battle, a five-game, seesawing, gut-wrenching match involving Harvard's Chip Robie, who had suffered from the flu all week. The Crimson racquetmen wondered whether he had the stamina to go the distance with stubborn Tiger Jason Fish...
...canyon of the Pine River in northern Pennsylvania. "The river is frozen harder than the shady side of a banker's heart," he told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "The rapids are silent, as if they're in an ice-cold grave. There have been no bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they're in absolute hibernation. My prayer is for snowflakes aplenty and rain in abundance. All these flush toilets man has created gobble up the water. To find a decent spring a digger must go down...