Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afterthought, Brenner's editorial adds. "At any rate, they have innumerable bridges in their vicinity which could more understandably bear that honorable name...
...happened to De Gaulle anyway?" he asked the lawyer recently. "That interests me. I condemned him to death and he condemned me in turn. We are both condemned men." Over De Gaulle's resignation as President, he sniffed contemptuously: "I stayed on when the difficulties were harder to bear." De Gaulle, he insisted, "wants to play the part of Napoleon," but his reputation as a military strategist stems only from the fact that "he explained battles of mine so well...
What had caused the break from 39.78? a lb. to 34.20?? Senator Elmer Thomas (who, Columnist Drew Pearson said, had been speculating in the market under his wife's name) charged that the fall was due to a bear raid, set the Department of Agriculture to investigating. The reason was much simpler: cotton prices were too high, had to fall...
...congregation of Tiggers, Rabbits, Wols, and piglets agreed under strictest absence of parliamentary procedure, since they cannot Bear voting, that they would pursue their literary communion without the protective aegis of the University Hall Pooseum or Rueter, who was retroactively impeached from his post of Christopher Robin of the Poohs...
...Madge, Listen . . . But in Manhattan a thousand sharpies got the word "beef" on the grapevine from the 14th Street Market, were thus able to stand in the rain all night, get into the scrimmage and out again with the bacon by noon the next day. You could get a bear roast in Denver if you knew the right party. And all over the U.S. people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck...