Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ally: "When the old virtues and the good virtues are being brought under question, this man stood like a pillar in a storm." Meany returned the compliment after a fashion. "Let me tell you," he said, "Franklin Roosevelt was just as tricky a politician as anyone who bore the name Tricky Dick ever could...
...propose that both he and Thieu resign, and that Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the Senate, become Acting President in order to organize a new election. For the moment, only one thing seemed certain: despite all the maneuvering to restore the appearance of a real race, the election still bore little resemblance to the "self-determination" that Washington politicians talk of when they explain why the U.S. is still in Viet...
...even read the newspaper. I don't feel at ease with American women. They're too perfect; their paradise of honesty doesn't excite me a bit. It's good only for unisex." Mastroianni is equally hard on Italian men: "We bore women with our insistence, our enthusiasm, our generosity. Except we get exhausted very soon...
...Moslems (not to mention Bengalis and Punjabis) on the Indian subcontinent. These discords are at once so enduring, so volatile and so impassioned that they sometimes make the quarrels among the superpowers seem rational and readily soluble. Indeed, in a week when the communiqués of conflict bore datelines like Belfast, Beirut and Dacca, it is noteworthy that the Big Four were inching closer to a settlement of the Berlin problem, a hangover from the days of World...
Campland is no bore to Owner Yale Willis, an oilman who is growing increasingly wealthy on his investment. "It's almost unbelievable that people come here in such numbers," he says. "Perhaps it's because people raising families can't afford hotels. We are really one of the greatest baby-sitting organizations in the country." Ever since Campland opened two years ago, says Willis, its steaming asphalt expanse has been chockablock full. Now, with its success assured, he plans to branch out to Mexico, where a network of 22 Camplands is scheduled to rise over the next...