Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, "this is a time when hatred is rife in the world, when many branches of the human family, victors or vanquished, innocent or guilty, are plunged in bewilderment, distress or ruin. The world is very ill. . . . Mankind cannot in its present plight bear new shocks without descending to altogether cruder and primordial forms...
Lack of an attack with a real scoring punch once again sunk Bob Maddux's lacrosse team as they lost 10 to 3 to a well co-ordinated Exeter ten yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field. The fact that the prep school boys has forwards who were when they got bear the net difference between...
...back, listening intently as wiry Justice William O. Douglas read another majority opinion. This was the case: Should a man who refused to bear arms for the U.S., but who was willing to do noncombatant military service, be admitted to U.S. citizenship? Five Justices had ruled Yes. The Chief Justice and two others had voted...
...Churchill paints the story of the "Red Bear" very gloomily, and there is no doubt that it is. But a weapon more powerful than any atomic bomb are millions of despairing hearts-hearts of the peoples of all the nations of the world who had hoped 'that true democracy would be the fruit of this terrible struggle, and not more power politics...
...down to an evening burra peg of bad Australian whiskey in the garden of the Cecil Hotel. Even the calloused, naked feet of shirtless Indians burned as they padded along the teeming Chandni Chauk. In the brassy glare, the flowering trees near the Viceroy's residence seemed to bear sparks rather than blossoms. The rind of an orange would shrivel the moment it was peeled from its fruit. Here & there an exhausted cow rested, sacred and undisturbed, in the traffic lanes of the boulevards...