Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Small wonder that attendance at the worship of God has suffered and with it knowledge of what constitutes genuine fellowship. The state of Sodom and Gomorrah was a teddy bears' picnic compared with the viciousness of the average parish life and its tribal customs, which in some cases are...
But often the flower plays too rough, and the snap of the pistil knocks the bee for a loop. Tough wild bees will take this punishment. Gently bred tame bees will not. They sneak up on the flower and steal its nectar stealthily without springing the pistil. The flower thus...
Leopold's case has been summed up by wartime Premier Hubert Pierlot. "The King is not a traitor," he wrote in 1947. "We have never doubted his good intentions. There is nothing unconstitutional in a King's being wrong, provided he follows the advice of his government. In...
Wrong Guess. The bears had made a bad guess. They had been banking on the fact that U.S. grain elevators were so clogged with surplus wheat from last year (TIME, June 6) that farmers would not be able to store the bumper crop now being harvested-and thus get no...
If the averages failed to break through that "floor," bulls and chartists thought the market would bounce up. If it did go through, bears thought it might slide on down to the "floor" below-i.e., the 1945 low mark of 151.35.