Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many an adult Briton could bear-and it was too much for one W. Wright-Newsome. He took.his troubles, as Britons will, to the Times of London. Wrote he: "The BBC seems bent on turning the children into a new kind of drug addict. . . . The poor children grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton . . . may do next than about their futures or the future of England. My neighbors confirm that when they turn [him] off . . . their children regard them as . . . tyrannic giants...
...Four, the U.N., the 21-nation meeting in Paris. The climax of these meetings, often deadlocked and always difficult, came with the simultaneous sessions of U.N. and the Foreign Ministers in New York. At these meetings the U.S. policy of "patience and firmness" with Russia began to bear fruit after a year of frustration and delay in the making of the peace. After the New York adjournments Byrnes left for a well-earned vacation. The Cleveland speech will be his first since the New York sessions. It will also be the first time that Byrnes and Vandenberg have ever appeared...
...first time I took charge of a study hall at Centennial High School, I thought I was in a bear garden. . . .* I have met rudeness and lack of control here more than anywhere else in the world [she has taught in England, India and Australia]. In America the child seems to govern the school, instead of school authorities governing the child...
...American radio clearly offers its listeners more than any other radio in the world. No other system is comparable in number of transmissions or variety of programs, and only BBC broadcasts can often bear comparison for quality...
...Negro Americans to all white Christians, Historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote (in his monumental work-in-progress, A Study of History): "The Negro appears to be answering our tremendous challenge with a religious response which may prove in the event, when it can be seen in retrospect, to bear comparison with the ancient Oriental's response to the challenge from his Roman masters. . . . Opening a simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, he has divined the true nature of Jesus' mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world not to confirm...