Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity's defensive workout was marked by the use of Bob Margairta, former Brown and Chicago Bear ace and backfield coach for the Crimson, who played the Bruins' Eddie Finn's quarterback slot for the squad imitating the Bear attack. Finn, whose back has been a cause of considerable concern to Coach Rip Engle this week, is the spark plug of the brown offense and their best passer. He is very likely to be ready against Harvard...
...happy coaches even thought that the unstoppable T-with its emphasis on speed, deception and "brush blocking"-was on the way to being stopped by equally unpredictable defense. But so far, the scores of a good many top T teams (among them, Notre Dame and Army) did not yet bear them...
...nature . . . and the laws of nature . . . are nowhere softened or sentimentalized in any of her stories"-though they are often made humorous. Ginger, the cat who runs the grocery store in The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, will sell his groceries to any animals except mice. " 'I cannot bear,' said he, 'to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels...
...questions. Neither Molotov, nor all the representatives who have been clamoring for restriction of the veto, seem to have realized the further implications of its removal: that if a world organization is to consider making decisions by a majority, it is necessary that the votes of the various nations bear some relationship to their power, population, and consequent importance in world politics; in short, some form of proportional representation with individual representatives, not states, casting the ballots...
...duty with the Corps. All three return to civilian life with considerable handicaps--Williams minus two legs, Mitchum with a silver plate in his skull, and Madison with a mild ease of the situational reaction that used to be called 'combat fatigue' earlier in the war. Williams can't bear donning his painful artificial legs or admitting that his boxing career is over; Mitchum refuses to tell his family about his disability or to seek adequate medical care; and Madison runs into trouble with his family and girl when he finds that neither college nor job provide any easing...