Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen hundred and forty-eight years ago, the Dalmatian stonecutter Marinus arrived on the rocky slopes of Mount Titano, in central Italy, drove out the fat brown bears who inhabited the mountain, and founded the republic now known as San Marino. To lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
...Curvaceous Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 25, the most eye-filling thing in women's tennis since Britain's Kay Stammers Menzies retired. Since the memorable lace-pantie experiment at Wimbledon (TIME, July 4), Gussie has switched back to shorts, promises to bear down on her tennis, which she thinks has suffered from too much publicity...
This novel was published in England last June as Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, a title that the U.S. publishers discarded as overlong and over-likely to suggest a book for juveniles. U.S. readers may nevertheless bear it in mind, for the book can be taken as an engraved invitation to a whole class of career intellectuals to break out of their nurseries. It is a civilized and at times a sardonically funny satirical novel...
Okefenokee Bear. Among the 900 guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec...
...only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government and that there shall be recognition of the fact that all citizens may express their views freely on questions of public interest...