Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McDonald's 1944-45 soccer team can bear down when the pressure is on, as was shown last Wednesday at Soldiers Field when the Crimson blasted home four goals in the second half to nip Brown, 4 to 3. The victory avenged a 1 to 0 defeat suffered at the hands of the same Bruin outfit this summer...
...Hungary meant that the Danube approach to Austria had become a fourth crusher point against the Reich (see map). Eisenhower in the west and Stalin in the east had the superiority in manpower, material and generalship to wear out the enemy quickly when they brought their full weight to bear...
...like a veteran trouper. "In my reading copy is another half sentence," he said, "but you got the point and I'm not going to use it. I happen to believe that even in a political, campaign we ought to obey that ancient injunction-Thou shalt not bear false witness...
...work. Under the National Service Act, gypsy poachers now make camouflage nets, gypsy tinkers repair copper vessels in jam factories, knife grinders shape metals, basket weavers wire eiectrical equipment for aircraft. While gypsy women (heretofore the traditional gypsy breadwinners) earn good money in war plants, their work-scorning menfolk bear arms or log wood pulp in Britain's forests...
...Hotel Stevens. The farther he had to push, the madder he got; almost everyone he bumped was wearing some convention badge. Near the crowded elevators, his eye fell on the long list of conventions and meetings on the bulletin board. This was more than ODT's boss could bear. He roared: "There are more damn conventions in Chicago this week than there should be in the entire country...