Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt, tireless globetrotter, was the guest who mattered in England last week. "She is welcome not only for the great name she bears," observed the London News Chronicle, speaking for a great many people, "but for her own endearing qualities of heart and mind."
"The facts show that the tactics of movement in concentrated force recently adopted by the new Greek army leaders have proved wiser and brought the first good results in the Pieria battle. The civilian population bears the brunt of the bandits, and is right in asking the army to guard...
Gold Cup assignment for Murrow (he thinks it bears a depressing resemblance to Munich, 1938). "It's the biggest news story out of Europe this year," he says, "and I cannot sit here in an air-conditioned office and report it."
Marauding Bears. Liberty Hyde Bailey, born during the Buchanan administration, was raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or...
Their stories go to the copy desk, which bears no resemblance to a newspaper copy desk. It is a busy traffic center where stories are typed, "styled" for capitalization, etc., counted for an estimate of how much space they will take in the magazine.