Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following this tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies, spies and informers, ruthless execution squads...
...WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Washington gossips croaked the news that Vice President Henry Wallace brought Franklin Roosevelt from Chungking: China's situation is grave, even desperate. And last week neutral Russia, breaking its long reticence about the Sino-Japanese war, treated its exhausted neighbor to a stroke of the bear...
...Town Crier's real nature. Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more kindness than anyone I have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...
After 20 years, the celebrated scenes of A Passage to India-the eerie sunstroke episode in the caves, when Miss Quested imagines that Dr. Aziz has insulted her, the melodramatic trial, when she lets, the Empire down by refusing to bear false witness against him-seem less impressive; the brilliant characterizations, the religious and political insights, the atmosphere, more impressive. Much that once seemed stage setting now seems as live as a hand grenade. Sample: the jocular references to Japanese spies...
State of a Nation. As Year VIII began, the burden on China's broad and patient back had never seemed so grievous, her strength to bear it never so taxed...