Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures bear captions, or need them: the faces of the liberated, the vanquished and the conquerors, alive & dead, speak for themselves. A great picture, by Capa's definition, "is a cut out of the whole event, which will show more of the real truth of the affair to someone who was not there than the whole scene...
...Norwegian Airlines Kvitbjoern (White Bear), a Sandringham flying boat, was one of the fanciest airliners aloft. An elevator carried its steward between the kitchen on the upper deck and the dining room and snack bar on the lower...
...weeks, as the boats rode at anchor, Josef had clutched the sleeves of passers-by on the wharf, pleading: "What is the use? Why don't they give up? I can't bear to think of them on that ship. Please tell them I'm here, tell them to come home...
...school's free atmosphere. They swore a great deal, were mean, spiteful and irresponsible. "Quite hopeless," says Mrs. Neill. No doubt they felt that they had a case. Says one current teacher: "Believe me, it is the hard way. Sometimes it is no longer possible to bear it. Then the only thing to do is to clear out completely for a few hours. The noise is the worst thing...
Others find the continual damage to property the hardest thing to bear. Neill is particularly sensitive about the way students smash up his school. But he says that one has to face the fact that children are not possessive about objects. Furniture, says Neill, means nothing to a child. Everything at Summerhill is as tough and unbreakable as possible, but it is still difficult for adults not to lose their tempers when students tear up favorite books or shatter records. But, says Neill, the children don't mean any harm...