Word: beares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed to find broad streets where they had expected to find "oppressed classes" living in shacks. The stoutly Republican New York Herald Tribune, learning that blonde Dancer Lydia Skriabina cherished but could not afford a $5 mechanical bear, sent a reporter dashing out to buy it and present...
...University administration has got the whole world in its hand, and sometimes the squeeze is too much to bear. An affectionate clutch can become a stranglehold, and noble hearts often bleed for ignoble purposes...
...called Adolf Eichmann. who told him: "I am prepared to sell you one million Jews. Blood for money: money for blood. You can take them from any country you like, where-ever you can find them. Whom do you want to save? Men who beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell me." Brand sat down...
...Nikita Khrushchev's first acts on the death of Stalin was to rush to Belgrade to bear-hug the heretic Tito, and to endorse his thesis of "different roads to Socialism." But now that Khrushchev holds both of Stalin's positions (party secretary and Premier), and now that he has Poland and Hungary more or less under control, he obviously feels less need to placate heretics. Sounding like his old master, Khrushchev last week publicly rebuked Tito for the very deviations that aroused Stalin...
...covers of a single stout volume. One reason is that few Presidents have been up to it or have had the time for it. Another, possibly more important, is a guild sympathy-a reluctance to trespass on another man's ordeal. At 83, Herbert Hoover trespasses only to bear gifts, and he crosses party lines to do it. In The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, he gives a generous salute to an idealist whose tragedy was quite simply that he did not live in an ideal world...