Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bags, the world champion Chinese table tennis team arrived in Detroit last week to start a two-week, nine-city good-will tour-the return engagement of last year's visit of the U.S. team to Peking. Their chartered Pan Am 707 carried two Mandarin-speaking stewardesses and bore the legend Friendship Clipper in Chinese characters. Delegation Leader, Chuang Tse-tung, 30, a three-time world champion (1961, 1963, 1965), promised that the team would concentrate on "friendship first, competition second...
...some kind of joke-white folks think I'm black and black folks think I'm white." Powell sought to confirm his blackness in his book Marching Blacks, published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City in 1908-the year Adam Jr. was born-to take the pastorship of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which he helped build to a membership of 14,000, one of the largest Protestant congregations...
...divisional commander and finally to the appropriate artillery battalion. Beyond this, ARVN's divisions are of sharply uneven quality, and its best units are apt to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Last week the crack 1st was resting in Hue while the bungling 3rd bore the brunt of the early fighting...
...pilot house, the officer of the deck watches the flight of the projectile on radar. Then a second round is fired. "Bore's clear," comes the voice on the loudspeaker. "Next target is Number 17." So it goes until 5:30 the next morning, when 200 rounds of the Buchanan's "H and I" (harassment and interdiction) fire will have been spent on 25 targets inside the DMZ. Another night in the U.S. Navy's long war off the coast of Viet Nam has ended...
...former merchant mariner who bore an uncanny resemblance to the late Heavyweight Boxer Sonny Listen, Karume came to power in a black-led revolution that overthrew the islands' Arab sultan in January 1964. Zanzibar, which lies 24 miles off the East African coast, united with mainland Tanganyika three months later to form the United Republic of Tanzania. The islands retained their own army and remained a tyrannical law unto themselves. Karume, a Moslem, became First Vice President of the union under Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere; in practice he remained the sole ruler of Zanzibar and rarely visited...