Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calves' Feet & Sorrow. Last week U.S. leaders were looking at disaster in China-but not looking very hard. Their detachment clearly said that this bullet did not bear their number. As good humanitarians they would continue to "give aid" to China, with something of the air of a squire's lady bringing calf's-foot jelly to the drunken and dissolute mother of 13. If mother & brood went Communist, that was solely because of her moral disorders. One had, after all, brought the jelly; only so many calves had so many feet; and there were the deserving...
...female conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks out and he himself at last goes away, his rosy swindle continues to bear fruit...
Accessory. In Cooke County, Tenn., revenue agents, hiding in the brush nearby until a moonshiner returned to his still, watched a bear sample the product, then in a drunken rage destroy both still and evidence...
...betting on Louis or Nicholas (both Mountbatten names); there were sure to be traditionalists in on the debate who would insist on the usual David, George, Andrew, and Patrick* for the four corners of the United Kingdom. All of these might be included, but the name that he would bear if he became king would be decided by his grandfather, the present king. At any rate, Elizabeth proclaimed to friends, whether she won out on the name or not, "I am going to be the mother of this child, not its nurses...
What's a Bargain? Last week, when bear growls could be plainly heard, the bond market was turning perversely bullish. Ordinarily, rising bond prices have preceded bull markets (as bond prices go up and their interest yield declines, common stocks grow more attractive). Last week, with stocks falling, long-term Treasury bonds, which set the bond market trend, rose above their Federal Reserve support-price for the first time since July...