Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds which had jammed the Manhattan courtroom thinned; the jury trying Alger Hiss for perjury relaxed. After ten days of bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
...unusual Class of '49 has made its mark on the hither edge of the Charles. No longer is the Radcliffe Commencement unbelievable, no longer is joint instruction a practice only of state universities. There is no telling what contribution '49 has made for the future; for the present, bear in mind that this class has had a more complete education than its predecessors, and that upon it will rest the responsibility of proving that joint education is a paying proposition intellectually as well as financially for the school across the Common...
...best of Germany, is getting ready to go back there as U.S. High Commissioner, the civilian successor to General Lucius D. Clay. McCloy will have to negotiate (which is what he does best) with the French, the British and the Russians, but his main job will be to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for suppressing the worst in the Germans, drawing out the best. For this people have the greatest capacity for good & evil in Europe, and the future of the world may turn upon whether they can be made a democratic, peace-loving people...
...with simple dignity: "I trample on your gold..." Cowder: He scorns my daughter's addresses! Freddie: Thus do I treat all dollar princesses! The Chorus: He won't consent? Extremely queer He must be mad, it's very clear. Alice (weeping): Oh the disgrace, I cannot bear it... Freddie (in lilting three-quarter time): Her every action confesses The fortune she is worth The proudest of dollar princesses- Is sometimes the poorest on earth...(Curtain...
Back at the ranch house, Arthur's return lets loose a flood of repressed passion, recriminations and superstitious maundering that Novelist Clark's meager story structure is too fragile to bear. What happens out on the snow-covered range is more successful and easily the most exciting part of the book. In a first-rate section of more than 100 pages, Curt's pursuit of the cat becomes a thriller with symbolic moral overtones that will remind some readers of Moby Dick. The cunning of the cat, the cold, the lack of food, the growing image...