Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge that this Administration has contributed to the downfall of European democracy. I charge it must bear a direct share of the responsibility for the present war. . . ." He flatly accused Franklin Roosevelt of having wrecked the London Economic Conference of 1933: "For a short time after his inauguration he did indeed regard the London economic conference with favor. He did not, however, see it for what it was: A magnificent opportunity for the leader of the world's greatest democracy to do something tangible to rehabilitate the democratic world...
Last week Tim Pile was told that his men must bear a heavier burden of defense. One night air-raid wardens circulated through their districts, saying: "There'll be a hell of a racket tonight, but don't worry, it's something our boys are putting up." When the enemy came over, the noise broke out, like dozens of summer storms. It was Tim Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing...
...some reason, the more children a mother has already had, the more likely she is to bear a big baby. Dr. William Davis Hawker of St. Louis checked the weights and family rank of 8,890 children born at the St. Louis City Hospital over a five-year period. Of these, 102 (1.1%) weighed over 4,500 grams (9.9 pounds). The average baby in this heavyweight group was a fifth child, whereas the average for the whole was a third child...
...British, who have a poetic feel for names, the rechristening of the destroyers became an immediately grave question. One suggestion was that they should bear names of British West Indian islands. A typically British sour note was struck with the suggestion that they should bear the names of British heroes of the U. S. Colonial and Revolutionary period. But the shrewdest suggestion-and one which would please sailors who think name-changing is bad luck-was that they should keep their present names: quiet U. S. heroes like Herndon, Welles, Buchanan, Crowninshield, Abbot, Conner. This would point up the spectacular...
Boston has many restaurants, which fall into two general classes: the lousy and the expensive. Durgin-Park, famous Boston catery where you get a huge meal for very little and where the waitresses call you "dear," is excellent. The Russian Bear, the Lafayette, and Locke-Ober's are all excellent and expensive, as is Dinty Moore's, modernistic steak parlor...