Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whether for good or ill, New York politics bear importantly on the President's larger strategies, hence far transcend parochialism...
...Wilderness! In Enterprise, Ore., three of a crew of four farmhands left a harvesting machine to look for apples, met a bear in the orchard, sped back to find the fourth man beating off a rattlesnake...
...small businessmen life is pleasantly hectic. Big business bemoans shipping troubles and losses of lands, machinery and men to the war effort. Sugar, Hawaii's biggest industry, may manage to ship 850,000 raw tons this year, 10% less than last. Pineapples, the second industry, bear up well because the fruit, like sugar, goes to the mainland in the holds of returning supply and ammunition ships. Tourism was the third industry. Today tourists wear dungarees, live in places like Red Hill, a huge defense camp, are named Never Sweat Harry and Kalamazoo Joe. They spend as freely...
...Dear Lord of Courage and Fortitude, if I must have Rheumatism, so help me by Thy divine grace to bear it in such a manner that I do not make every person in the house feel the pain. Give me the grace to refuse to describe over and over again the misery and pangs that belong to me alone. Strengthen in me the desire to get well, that I may not even be tempted to live in the pity and sympathy that is expected to be extended to an invalid. May I remember continually that pains in nerves are multiplied...
When post-war planners, mindful of Item 4 of the Atlantic Charter, try to assure to all states the "access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world," they may have to bear in mind that the U.S. in the not too distant future may no longer export but import...