Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncertain present. His great talents for compromise and maneuver which he developed and used in the prewar years stood him and his country in good stead now. A prewar French biographer, Pierre Crabites, said of him that Benes "understands the art of keeping his eye on the bear when circumstances force him to dance with it." But, as his conduct in 1938 proved, he also knows when to stop dancing...
Like his Master, he was a carpenter. He was also a Seventh-Day Adventist, and a pacifist. Desmond T. Doss, of Lynchburg, Va., refused to bear arms in World War II. He explained simply: "It is right there in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill." But Doss did not object to serving as an Army Medical Corpsman. When he was sent overseas he asked for assignments in the front lines. He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty...
...roared: "My name is Andrew Jackson, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slip without a scratch down the honey locust, whip my weight in wildcats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat anybody opposed to the COMMON MAN! Come on, boys, let's get Nicholas Biddle...
...ripen quicker. (It was the ethylene gas in the wood smoke.) Following the principle, Hawaiian pineapple-growers have long been dropping pellets of calcium carbide into the hearts of their yucca-like pineapple plants. Moistened by dew, the pellets give off acetylene (similar to ethylene) which makes the plants bear earlier...
...Bear Market. In Duluth, county commissioners who offered bounties for killing bears ($20 for adults, $10 for cubs) called off the offer after two months and $3,270 worth of bears...