Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they first arrive. Bordley explains, "Of course when you come to an area you should know a little something about it. But there should be maps--I know MIT has them...you find yourself really inhibited needing to have a sighted person to go somewhere. It can be a bore for roommates; it can be a real burden on them and it's bad for relationships...
...sound truck blurting the locally popular tune "Southie, My Home Town." Boston Mayor Kevin White did not march, but Gov. Michael Dukakis did, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 never showed despite his announced intention to participate. He is probably lucky he stayed away--bars, shop windows and lapels bore little good will for the man whose family name is uttered with reverence by most Irish-Americans outside the Boston area...
...goals--usually that of producing an entertaining film--and address the other two only cursorily, if at all; while entertaining, the results of such efforts are little more than loosely-based fictional treatments. Diana Ross was wonderful to watch and hear in Lady Sings the Blues, but the character bore only a slight resemblance to Billie Holliday. And the makers of Night and Day indulged in a luxurious piece of miscasting when they selected strapping sex symbol Cary Grant to star as a wimpish, homosexual composer named Cole Porter. It's encouraging, then, to find that in Bound For Glory...
Most striking of all, perhaps, is the marked drop in the auto theft rate. Back in 1974, Cambridge bore the dubious distinction of having the highest car theft rate in the country. Insurance costs on cars ran so high that it was scarcely worth owning one; in fact, a popular trick was to hire someone to steal your car so that you could then collect the insurance rate...
...Curry bore the burden well and Radcliffe retired to the dressing room leading 26-23 at the half...