Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Books. The cuisine in Butte, Mont., still ranges from "fried bear steak to Cornish pasties"-not pastries. Blame an overzealous proofreader for this...
...political boss who has ruled the Fourth as his father-in-law (and now his enemy) Ben Johnson, 85, did before him. He stage-managed the rise of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler. Arbitrary with his patronage, he antagonized many a ward heeler, earned the nickname of "The Old Bear." No one knew why he decided to run for Congress just when the Democratic ship was rocking in Kentucky. But retiring Governor Keen Johnson (no kin to Patriarch Ben) obligingly arranged for Talbott to be nominated. At the polls Talbott was exposed to "bullet votes" from disgruntled party hacks...
Professor Sorokin also contended that, because of the greater economy involved in having one big college instead of two smaller colleges, co-education is very desirable in communities and institutions that cannot bear the heavy load of carrying on their backs separate boys and girls colleges. Co-education is economically desirable in colleges...
...mill closed down. Workers wandered off to work in Butte's copper mines. The Anaconda men who operated Mouat for the Government went back to their old jobs. All that was left in Mouat, three months after production began, were guards, maintenance men and their families, an occasional bear nosing through empty garbage cans, and old Bill Mouat and his wife...
...than return to infect his comrades with despair. The young bourgeois lawyer (Jean Pierre Aumont) is horrified when his fellows plot to kill the wine-merchant without a trial, yet he succeeds him as a trusty. He manages to negotiate an escape for several of his friends, yet cannot bear to break jail himself unless the tortured taxi-driver has the daring to come with...