Word: bore
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Female actresses had been allowed onstage by royal warrant since 1660. Fraser estimates that while one quarter were professionals, most women used the stage to display their wares and attract protectors. Elizabeth Barry, considered the leading actress of the Restoration, was involved with the Earl of Rochester and bore him a child in poverty...
Mondale lacked a true jugular instinct, missing several openings to bore in. The debate clearly served to air issues that have been somewhat submerged in the campaign thus far. For viewers, the debate was a reassuring reminder of the fundamental strengths of America's democratic process. If it did not produce a closer race, it produced a far more interesting...
Democrats controlling the House had tried to break up the legislation into a number of separate bills, rather than passing intact a package that bore a Reagan Administration label. But House Republicans brought up the whole package as a rider to the continuing resolution, even though no committee hearings had ever been held on some of the provisions. Their motive was primarily to embarrass the Democrats. The ploy worked: the pack age sailed easily through both House and Senate...
...sticker price that will make it the cheapest new car on the U.S. market. Says Bricklin, 45, a New York City businessman who introduced the first Japanese Subaru to the U.S. in 1968 but crashed during the mid-1970s when he built a gull-winged sports car that bore his name: "The Yugo will be like a 19? hamburger with meat...
...memoir of a successful middle-aged magazine editor who befriends a lonely old woman-seem to have fooled nearly everyone. The manuscript was first sent incognito to two of Lessing's British publishers. Both rejected it without recognizing Lessing's touch. A third, remarking that the style bore a resemblance to Lessing's, agreed to publish the novel in Britain and was let in on the secret. But only Robert Gottlieb, editor in chief of Knopf and a close friend of Lessing's, recognized the real author at first glance when he was shown the manuscript...