Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who suspected he was in the Navy only for effect soon revised their opinion. He was the ideal naval administrator-big, neat, quiet, orderly and a bear for work. Halsey made him his flag secretary-chief administrative officer of headquarters ashore, and an assistant chief of staff at sea-and began calling him Harold...
...easy is a bush supposed a bear?" --Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene...
...activity-for him-between 1905 and 1910. The rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume for the first time. Old as they are, they bear none of the scars of age; their disembodied timelessness is a witness to Forster's skill...
...only confirmed the old suspicion that gentlemen prefer blondes. During the war the relations of government and business were so extensive, the number of contracts so vast, that there are bound to be numerous dark corners that need to be looked into, plenty of shady deals that could not bear the light of day. The committee could do the country a real service by uncovering them. But this particular investigation has its own merits from the point of view of the Republicans. For the magic name of Roosevelt is involved. FDR's administration will in time become a rosy myth...
Another merchant of gloom was Wall Street Analyst John H. Lewis,* a historical parallelist, who had made his reputation in July 1946 by announcing a bear market just as the market started down. Lewis, not willing to let go of his bear's tail, last week insisted that the market was still a bear. By the fourth quarter, he said, when exports fall off and more & more of the deferred consumer demand at home has been satisfied, a "real slump" will come; the "present bear market" will be intensified...