Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminded us clearly that colonial America bore little resemblance to the comfortable, socially amenable, insect-and disease-free Williamsburg restoration...
...Thugs in India were another murderous sect, but they killed not for political control but in devotion to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, and for gain. Like the Assassins, the Thugs bore some resemblance to modern spies in their undercover operations, methods of infiltration and disguise...
...examination contained 40 such multiple-choice questions on professional ethics. The section was added in an apparent response to a widespread feeling that the shocking number of lawyers involved in the nation's recent political scandals called for much greater attention to legal ethics. The test results bore out the feeling. The examiners report that 44.2% of the 2,313 aspiring attorneys who took the exam last February got fewer than 28 questions right and thus flunked the ethics section. That is roughly the same percentage that failed the exam as a whole; nonetheless, the examiners were shocked, since...
...aging literary gents are discovered at wordplay in a womblike Edwardian salon. John Gielgud, the social-climbing guest, is a failed poet and garrulous pub bore. Host Ralph Richardson is a successful but dipsomaniacal belletrist blimp who keeps two menacing servants to guard against just such intrusions. Together these two titled mandarins of the stage are guiding us into Pinter-land, where words struggle to contain the open-ended flux of existence. Our journey through it is brilliantly illuminated by their partnership...
...final stage of an uncompromising view of Communism that has almost disappeared in the West. The source of his greatness, however, lay not in popular acceptance but, as in Thomas More's case, in "his willful indifference to realities which were obvious to quite ordinary contemporaries." The cross he bore--his love of God and freedom--has been lifted at last from his willing shoulders. For those who have ears to hear, his witness remains...