Word: beared
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...bear broke into the hive last night and laid waste the bees' civilization. When we walked out in the rain to the beeyard, in a clearing in the pines just beyond the orchard, we found a little apocalypse: thousands of bees milling and fussing among the ruins of their elaborate work - white supers strewn here and there, frames with vandalized honeycomb scattered up the path the bear had taken when he lumbered carelessly away...
...Danylo went at his life with both hands, simultaneously industrious and romantic, flashingly intelligent and, always, very much alive. It seems a shock (and a hateful wrong) that such a life, so elaborately and handsomely and admirably constructed, should be smashed in a moment by the oblivious, passing bear...
...week. I want to choose him just as much as he will choose me. But when we find each other, I want us to feel that we're picking a partner worth more than simply buying flowers or fancy dinners for. I want to choose someone I couldn't bear to live without...
...Whatever pressure the President may bring to bear on House Democrats will more than likely be outweighed by concern, going into an election, to keep organized labor enthused about the Democratic party's prospects for winning back the House. The AFL-CIO is solidly against a China trade deal on the grounds that it has insufficient safeguards for human rights and labor standards, without which the unions fear that more manufacturing jobs will depart these shores for China's cheaper labor market. Thus the revival of the coalition between pro-labor Democrats and conservative Republicans that fought NAFTA. Of course...
...feel of the Science Center is preferable to the sanitized feel of Harvard Hall which tries to be all things to all people but only succeeds in feeling endlessly renovated. For better or worse, the Pudding building was occupied for more than a century by its namesake; it should bear some trace of this and of its antiquity...