Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been hugged by the bear before. The State Department had to be on guard so that a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers was not used by Russia as a propaganda trap instead of the beginnings of a real peace settlement. It was a risk that was worth taking...
...intention of disappointing anyone. Boomed he: "I intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians the way to play Mozart...
This comico-tragic instant brings to bear, like the point of a knife, the dilemma of 19th Century Jean Barois and the meaning of his story. It is the fulcrum of the cold, sharp "novel of ideas" which won Novelist Roger Martin du Gard his first critical respect when it was published in France in 1913. Martin du Gard went on to win a Nobel Prize (1937) for his masterwork, The Thibaults, a magnificent cycle of novels about French bourgeois life in the first two decades of the 20th Century...
General consultants from New England participating in the panels include Cyril G. Sargent, John B. Langmuir, Joseph E. Bear, Fred B. Pitkin, Howard Stone, J. P. Howard, John E. Marshall, Elmer S. Horton, Carl J. Batchelder, Paul E. Farnum, William O. Bailey, and James H. Bruffee...
...Baseball Muse was so pleased with the perfect records of the Lowell and Adams teams that she couldn't bear to let either squad lose the crucial game yesterday. So she came up with this solution: Lowell 4, Adams...