Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's 3-meter diving competition, the East German judge on a panel of seven generously gave the D.D.R. entrants the top three scores. Other judges saw matters differently, and the East German girls finished third, ninth and tenth in the finals. In the prone small-bore-rifle competition, Victor Auer of the U.S. appeared to have outpointed North Korea's Ho Jun Li, 598-595, despite raucous heckling by Li's countrymen, who steadfastly ignored the officials' reprimands. When the shooting stopped, the Koreans demanded an examination of the target. Two hours later the judges...
Some years ago, airlines discovered a new way to bore passengers and lose money besides: they began distributing free in-flight magazines filled largely by predictable articles about the glories of resorts along the airlines' routes. They succeeded neither in interesting readers nor in luring many advertisers. Now, however, the in-flights are changing from expensive throwaways to solid publishing ventures, with a relatively new book, American Airlines' The American Way, jetting into the lead. The American Way is expected to earn $25,000 to $50,000 this year-the first significant profit ever turned by an inflight...
...summer of 1972 sometimes bore a gloss of nostalgia. Rock stations piping vacationers to the beach played interminable "golden oldies," the rhythms of the '50s rising over the sunny traffic jams. The mood took others farther back. "Everywhere I go," said Sacramento Printer Gilbert Newman...
...rules. Long before Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange into a film, the Stones were acting out the fantasy of being Alex and his droogs. When, around 1965, England's subculture of Purple Hearts and winklepickers began to mutate into hashish and Moroccan caftans, it was the Stones who bore the full weight of Albion's reprobation. Three of them were busted, haled into court and subjected to a campaign of vilification from the English right-wing press. The Stones became the scapegoats of England's drug problem, and their legal vicissitudes provided London with the juiciest gossip...
...area fell under the control of the Pathet Lao and a small number of North Vietnamese army troops and advisers. For the next 5 ½years U.S. airpower bore down on the Plain of Jars, ostensibly to support the efforts of CIA-backed Meo tribesmen to recapture the province. Bombers flew daily and sometimes hourly attack sorties, a total of 25,000 missions, dropping an estimated 75,000 tons of napalm, white phosphorus, antipersonnel bombs and high explosives-more than a ton for every Pathet Lao guerrilla, NVA soldier and civilian in the area. The bombing was intended to harass...