Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's permission and assistance, Culprits Pedraza, Garcia and other rebels with their families took a specially chartered Pan American Airways plane to Miami, where they were joined two days later by Culprit Gonzalez. Arriving in Florida, Gonzalez spoke like a defeated U. S. Presidential candidate. "1 bear President Batista only gratitude." he said, "and want to thank him for all the kindness he has shown me in the past and while I was getting ready to sail for the United States." Cuba had indeed progressed far since 1933, when a police chief who had lost favor was shot...
...gyrocompass and untiring as the Mediterranean sun, Sir Andrew spent most of his years on the way up aboard destroyers, mostly in the Mediterranean. He learned some unhappy lessons off Cape Helles during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. He is known as a grim disciplinarian and a bear for work. He has such a loud voice for commands that his underlings say that inter-ship signals in battle are just a waste of effort; and he is such an expert navigator that his crews say he could cut an egg in half with a battleship...
...Sophomores, Benjamin C. Bradlee, George R. Clay, Peter Dunham, Justin J. Haley, F. Barton Harvey, and H. W. Ford King conceived the idea of the Cotillion and would have had to bear the cost of the affair if it had not been financially productive...
...strength in the specialty events. Sophomore Bill Drucker is fast enough right now to give Bosworth a run for his money, and Dick Harris and Al Mathis are capable spares. The number one man in the other specialty field is Senior Bob White, a converted free-styler and a bear for work, who has been improving by leaps and bounds. One of his big problems right now is to translate practice times into meet performances and eliminate a few of Hal Ulen's worries. Roger Wilcox and Max Kraus are battling it out for the second job, with Krans, having...
...Tugboat Annie in manner or language, little Captain "Ma" got her orders obeyed without profanity, spent her leisure embroidering and reading in her cabin. She took time out to bear two sons (one of whom died in boyhood), bore another on a steamer held fast in an ice gorge. She brought up the boys in her cabin, slipping easily from singing lullabies to snapping orders to her crew...