Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of 30 men: the division engineer and his assistant, the superintendent of bridges, a lawyer, electricians, signal crew, bridge and section-gang men. The waiting section hands seized clawbars, heaved at the rails. Finally the track was taken up and Dottie flirted triumphantly through into the Hudson. At Bear Mountain they went ashore and had sodas to celebrate. The silent gang rebound the tracks, replaced fishplates, spikes, stood by to rip them up again when Dottie returned. Pretty soon she did. Up came the rails, up the creek chugged Dottie...
...times of action literature is the words of men of action. Afterward come the poets. To the small men of Britain in 1940 Winston Churchill spoke words that may live as long as Shakespeare's: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say "This was their finest hour...
Though only 50% of the draftees actually sign up, this potential line-up was too much for the other club owners to bear. Before adjourning, they voted to plug the loophole in their draft rule: next year no club can sell or trade its first-or second-choice draftees until one playing year has elapsed, except by consent of the other nine league members...
...this second Christmas of Hitler's war finds Niemoller and upwards of 200,000 other Christians (some estimates run as high as 800,000) behind the barbed wire of the frozen Nazi concentration camps. Here men bear mute witness that the Christ-whose birth the outside world celebrates unthinkingly at Christmas-can still inspire a living faith for which men and women even now endure im prisonment, torture and death as bravely as in centuries past...
...murder. In the Dies Committee's hearings Representative Joe Starnes of Alabama said to Hallie Flanagan : "You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a Communist?" On the Senate floor, Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina gave a list of plays presented by Federal Theatre that "definitely bear the trademark of 'red' Russia in their titles, plays spewed forth from the gutters of the Kremlin." Senator Reynolds included Up in Mabel's Room...