Word: bore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman: at 18 she was working for the feminist cause, including distributing pamphlets urging women to "make themselves heard," while just two years later she was accepting a convenient marriage to George Tuttle Brokaw, an unstable millionaire 23 years her senior who was, by her own characteristic admission, a " bore...
...long-standing customers showed up to sample the first bogus games -- as many as 38,494 in Denver, as few as 4,074 in Philadelphia -- while the television audience started out curiously strong (just three or four rating points off the normal 14) but dwindled as the afternoon bore on and the novelty wore out. In 17 years, only one Monday- night program ever summoned less interest than the sans San Francisco 49ers versus the new New York Giants, though the show contained one exquisite moment. Beginning the second half, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh inserted a running quarterback and abruptly...
Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, researchers have reasoned that a handful of people -- maybe even a single individual -- bore the unknowing responsibility for having introduced the disease to North America and its first large group of victims, the homosexual community. By tracing sexual contacts, officials at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta in 1982 found a likely candidate: one man who, through his sexual liaisons and those of his bedmates, could be linked to nine of the first 19 cases in Los Angeles, 22 cases in New York City and nine more in eight other cities...
...grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford II bore one of the most powerful names in American business. He used it wisely to save the second largest U.S. automaker in its dark days after World War II. He used it arrogantly when he put down executives who dared to contradict him by reminding them, "My name is on the building...
Ruiz said that two deliberately chose a frivolous approach for their mutual campaign. "It's a joke, it's fun. We don't want to bore [the voters]," Ruiz said...