Word: bore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back into the net. Whitney says, "If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet, your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net, and he'd hit it every time." As majestic as the sight of Orr full bore used to be, at least he appeared out of somewhere...
During the first two years of his White House tenure, Ronald Reagan rarely immersed himself in the arcane details of nuclear issues. The difficult minutiae seemed to bore him. But one broader element intrigued him: the question of whether there was any realistic alternative to Mutual Assured Destruction. To Reagan, MAD was the equivalent of two men pointing cocked pistols at each other...
...never bore what could almost be thought of as the liability of physical beauty; undistracted men simply responded to her competence. Her success may have come about in large measure because people virtually ignored the fact that she was a woman...she was virtually accepted as a man, she became Prime Minister of Israel as though she were...
...them. His special interest, however, was in twins and dwarfs. When Mengele found seven dwarfs among her Hungarian theater family, Elizabeth Moskovitch recalled from a wheelchair last week, he exclaimed delightedly, "Now I have 20 years' worth of material to study." The final witness was Ruth Eliaz. After she bore a child, she reported, Mengele strapped her breasts with tape and settled down to see how long it took an unfed infant to die. When the emaciated child was reduced to a whimper, Eliaz was given a syringe and some morphine by a female Jewish doctor. Then, she recalled, choking...
...stepfather to ten of his own. He was genial, articulate, gregarious, a spokesman for Nelson Rockefeller, intimate of politicians and journalists across the country. But at home he often seemed a figure invested with glamour, forbearance and remoteness. There, "injury and anger gusted inarticulately through the house. The spirit bore a bruise, a grievance: the bruise was mysterious . . . We could not explain it, we could not assuage...