Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chores at two others, even had to teach catechism and act as proctor to choirboys. His family obligations were increasing too. After the death of Barbara, he had married a professional singer named Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721; she became stepmother to the four surviving children, and was to bear him another 13 herself. Beyond all this, he found himself entangled in drawn-out quarrels with the church rector and the municipal council...
...motivated or wrong - usually both. To back that up, he has compiled 407 pages of quotations and anecdotes, mostly from newspapers, magazines, books and anonymous journalists and politicians. For example, as evidence that Kennedy was not far enough left on an issue, he quotes Ramparts. To bear wit ness that Kennedy was not far enough right, he cites William Buckley's Na tional Review. Was Bobby too hostile to the automobile industry? A Pontiac, Mich., publisher is the judge. Was the Cuban missile crisis a defeat for the Kennedys? Nikita Khrushchev says so. Any source dissatisfied with Kennedy...
...year men will get 17 weeks' extra pay, down from 18 weeks last year. But Merrill Lynch, which has led the industry in automation, continues to handle its 1,004,000 customers profitably, and opposes higher commissions. Says President Donald Regan: "The small guy shouldn't bear the burden...
...whether the Krupps and weapons makers generally are a cause or a byproduct of military nationalism. Do they make policy, or simply profit from it? In bringing the question of German culpability up to date, Manchester neglects to mention that most West Germans were born after 1933. Though they bear no guilt for the past, they show grave concern over the profound moral issues raised by the manufacture of weapons and their use in the world. Generally, they have concluded that where moral doubt exists, it is better to abstain from profit. Young Germans are among the world...
...journeyman novelist. Brand's raw material- case histories detailing the unorthodox treatment of psychotics in the late 1940s- obsesses him at the expense of his craft. Anything approaching the tragic finally escapes him, but in this best-selling novel, by sheer plodding persistence, Brand compels the reader to bear witness with him to the involuted agonies of shipwrecked minds...