Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with them in neighborhood pubs. Bert's Bar, a dingy shack in Smithfield market, set the tone with an inviting sign: "Bert's Buns Are Better than NAAFI."* Inside soldiers and strikers struck up friendships over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman: "It makes a change. If we weren't working here...
...dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian who longs for the ice-free avenues of such a relatively southern metropolis as New York. When one is in Cambridge, one must grin and bear and take a long historical view...
Spitzbergen and Bear Islands, north of Norway, were deeded to that country by treaty in 1919, with the stipulation that the islands were to be demilitarized permanently. In the convention that signed the treaty were representatives of Japan, as well as 29 other nations. The Soviets currently feel that the signatures of the Japanese representatives invalidate the entire proceedings, thus paving the way for new disposition of claims for the island. Among these claims is the oft-repeated desire of the Russian government to share in the "defense" of the Spitzbergen Islands...
Listeners who can bear with such brash trash are rewarded with a program as carefully arranged (generally by musicianly Mrs. Robbins) as a symphony orchestra's. During dinnertime, from 6:30 to 7, there is "gastric plastic"-soft, slow stuff; for the last hour the show gets hot with blues, boogie, chamber-music jazz, and jazz antiques. And at 9 p.m., when the last "fetching etching" has been sent, Robbins dreamily concludes: "This is your professor of thermodynamics taking a tacit for 24. We're clearing the joint of counterpoint, but we'll be back next black...
...horse" counsel of his less scientific companions, the intrepid Gold Coaster chose the director approach. Trial and error showed him where the weak spots were, and gravity did the rest. "Water's pretty warm for January," he concluded, as he filed his application for the local Polar Bear club...