Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate and to the American people a great decision which will determine the fate of the United States-and of the world-for generations to come. There can be no middle ground here. We shall have to take the responsibility for world collaboration, or we shall have to bear the responsibility for another world conflict...
...wind was warm enough last week to melt the snow around the tipples of most of the nation's coal mines; there was a faint hint of spring in the air. Like a grey old bear ending his winter's hibernation, John Llewellyn Lewis lumbered from his den to negotiate with the nation's bituminous operators...
...London Poles would bear Mikolajczyk no ill will if he did. In the U.S. their supporters described his state of mind at the time he last visited Moscow. His wife had been put in a German concentration camp. His only son was grown up. He had few illusions about accomplishing anything substantial for the Polish people by joining the Warsaw Government. He might, in the end, be killed by the Russians or the Poles. But if, before that time, he could do even a little for the Polish people, he felt that he should risk a return, even...
Then behind a jet of vaporous breath appeared a vendeuse, rubbing her hands, the national gesture of this winter. Madame wished to see a dress? The one with the elbow sleeves and the deep V-neck? But certainly, if Madame could bear to try it on. Yes? Ah, Madame was a real Joan of Arc ! The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room. Heroically Madame took off her coat, then her extra lining, then, with thin-lipped determination, her dress. The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage. Deftly she inserted Madame into the model of the new gown...
...much of columnists that it runs 15 of them. All of them fit comfortably into the Post's political frame: New Dealism. Even so, the Post last week found the opinions of two of its top columnists, Dorothy Thompson and Edgar Ansel Mowrer, more than it could bear. The offending pair were thereupon taken to task by Post Editor Ted O. Thackrey. In a hotly phrased, 1,000-word, two-column blast, Editor Thackrey wrote with the air of a man asking himself: is this what I have been publishing...