Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign has been accomplished." Since the military advantage of taking Changsha was to block the supply routes which lead through it (TIME, Oct. 6), this was nonsense. With a straight face the Tokyo press declared that the Japanese Army was withdrawing after victory because "Japanese forces can no longer bear to see innocent Chinese people suffering the war's disaster...
Three yips and a yipe! Yes, sir, the season's open! Amid loud cheers and yells, Harvard's Polar Bear Club broke the ice late Sunday evening at its first official outing of the year--a swim in the ocean at Revere Beach...
...Three Furies of the isolationist press increased their howls. In Chicago, Robert ("Bertie") McCormick's Tribune bombarded the Midwest with isolationist propaganda, screamed: "The 80 per cent of our people who are Americans undefiled by foreign seductions must bring their influence to bear on Congress and the Executive." Cousins Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) and Eleanor Patterson (Washington Times-Herald) ground out their daily gripes at the risks involved in the Administration's policy of trying to stop Hitler...
...poisonous milk of curupi-cay, many other afflictions with other local flora. Thousands of his patients have, beyond doubt, got well. Many orthodox physicians think that Tupá Mbaé has had something to do with it. The forests of southern Paraguay contain a rich pharmacopaeia which would bear looking into...
...Quincy awards affected. The men will talk things over together, while the women will withdraw to another part of the room and do the same. Suggestions received from the CIO hint that it is often more advisable to convince the wife, since she can bring greater pressure to bear...