Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democratic majority . . . to . . . produce the best possible measure under all the circumstances. . . . Those who, like ourselves, feel that there is much room for its improvement should always bear in mind that there is no such thing as a good tax bill. . . . The most that can be said in its favor is that it might have been worse...
...which turned the tide of World War I, the new press preparation was ominous. To the youth of Germany the probability of the U.S. fighting against them was a blow; for the youth of Germany-which cannot dance, hear good jazz, use cosmetics, which must work, fight and bear children-still thinks of the U.S. as a land of plenty, the land of skyscrapers and Artie Shaw and Clark Gable...
...Revolt? Some of the German people like this (those who do not have to bear it). The rest are tired, disunited, unarmed, afraid. Strong and honest resentments against the regime there are, but the resentments have not coalesced into effective opposition. There are not equally strong and honest convictions. The Church can never fight beside the Communists; the monarchists cannot go along with radical groups; the Bavarians still hate the Prussians; the democrats are lost...
...Soviet Union. This step, said he, was taken under the direction of "Italy's Al Capone, known as Mussolini." As for the German claims of mighty victories, said Funnyman Lozovsky, "they remind me of the story of the hunter who shouted: 'I have caught a bear...
...turns a fledgling loose in a "yellow peril" (primary trainer), the Navy has fashioned him into the rough framework of a seagoing man. He says "Knock off the chatter" when he means shut up, "shove off" when he means leave, calls the floor "the deck," tells you to "bear a hand" instead of hurry up, describes things as "squared away" when they are in order. From 5 a.m. reveille to 9 p.m. taps, he takes orders and gets little thanks. He learns not to resent the peremptory nature of commands, comes to see that brusqueness and military efficiency go together...