Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part in that rescue the Chinese could-and warmly did-thank him. The U.S. and the world could thank George Marshall for an even more important service. For the first time in a major postwar issue, the power, prestige and principles of U.S. democracy had been brought to bear in constructive, positive fashion...
...military mind was closing in on the G.I. journals. Fortnight ago the Berlin edition suffered a body blow. The brass ruled that any letter to its "B-Bag" section, the doughfoots' one safety valve, must bear the letter writer's name, rank and serial number (not for publication, but in case the letters called for action). Under a rule like that, nobody was likely...
...solidly meshed combinations of keys, wheels, metallic leaves and tubular women sell well to people who like to take their machine-age art neat. Mostly he confines himself to blacks, greys, and eye-stopping poster reds and yellows. Says he: "Nowadays a work of art must bear comparison with any manufactured object. The artistic picture is false and out of date...
...York Times's Radio Editor Jack Gould wrote: "Ratings are perhaps the biggest cross that radio has to bear and now would be a fine time to heave them...
...they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying dog and Santa Claus and his reindeer, mush their Malemutes through a Klondike blizzard of paradox and punning...