Word: beares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Conakry, a city of sleepy charm with its thick-walled, whitewashed houses, its cool green mango trees, its shops and bars that bear the stamp of France (Le Royal St. Germain, A la Chope Bar, Chez Maitre Diop), an air of harassed improvisation fell. For lack of help, ministers had to do the secretarial work while visitors clogged their waiting rooms. Telephones did not work, clerks scuttered about looking for the only copy of the diplomatic list. Messages were sent in to the Minister of Health while he was performing surgical operations...
With rapid, metallic movements she took off her gloves and shoes and went to work. Lucius watched her athletic socks as they drummed suggestively on the floor. It was almost more than he could bear...
...work does not stand up to that of the West. He has had neither the benefit of training nor of example. In all probability, if he is martyred, few people will remember. And Soviet realists will continue to produce panoramas of exhuberant peasants, peasants whose pearl-like teeth bear faint resemblance to the steel variety in the mouth of Khrushchev himself...
Nearly ten years after his death, Mexico's José Clemente Orozco is still one of the world's most debated artists. Last week San Antonio's McNay Institute was staging a major retrospective of his art, expressly designed to bear out the catalogue's contention that "Orozco is the major painter of our time, that he, rather than European painting of the same half-century, is the primary heir and vehicle of the great humanistic tradition of the Renaissance...
Some of these students have proved they can "grin and bear it," but with scholarships and reserve family resources denied them, others have had to find some other way out. Thus, concurrent with the expansion boom, and the cost increases, the loan program has received added emphasis. As proposed by Professor Harris, loans for financing a college education qualify as the answer for a student in any income bracket. But others, like Dean Monro, see the loan program as the answer for those in the middle income group, students caught without a scholarship. And, in Monro's words, the loan...