Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory, Harry Truman was happy and humble. He visited reporters in the press car, laughingly chided them for their bum guesses. At Missouri's drab state capital, Jefferson City, he quieted the cheers of several thousand well-wishers. "After the election's over," he said, "I bear no malice or feel badly toward anyone, because the fellow who lost feels badly enough without being crowed over . . . This is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to a man. But this is a terrible responsibility and you must stand behind...
After three weeks of relying on individual brilliance to win football games, the Varsity started to work together again Saturday. The result of teamwork was a decisive 30 to 19 win over a confident but battled Brown Bear...
...woolly bear forecasting proves to be no good, Curran will have to figure out what actually causes the annual variations in the caterpillars' cummerbunds. And if it is accurate...
...much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions reserved for God Himself. Said he: "We ought to give up ... every thought that the care of the Church, the care of the world, is our care . . . For just this is the final root and ground...
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Paramount), a smooth-surfaced, creaky-jointed melodrama, stars Edward G. Robinson as a vaudeville "mentalist" who finds, to his embarrassment, that his clairvoyant gift is genuine. He feels so helplessly responsible for the catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his remarkable powers. He disappears into the depths of Los Angeles, leaving his fiancee (Virginia Bruce) to marry his partner (Jerome Cowan). Just as he could predict, Virginia dies in childbirth and Jerome makes money hand over fist...