Word: bore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when a number of conservative groups successfully targeted liberal candidates, mostly Democrats, for defeat. This year no side has a monopoly on the practice, and the victims are hitting back. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Allen Ertel implied on the campaign trail that Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh bore part of the blame for a shooting spree by a deranged prison guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan pins. Republican Congressman Cooper Evans of Iowa...
These terms are from the account of Rudy Waltz, pharmacist, playwright and nonstop bore. Rudy was twelve when he fired a Springfield rifle out of a window. And killed a pregnant woman eight blocks away. On Mother's Day. Hence the sobriquet Deadeye Dick. Talk about irony...
...really like that word, In fact I think it's a bore. This is my first time here, And I don't intend to come
...Young homosexual men with a history of promiscuity started showing up at the medical clinics of New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a bizarre array of ailments. Some had Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a deadly disease rarely seen except in drug-weakened cancer and transplant patients. Others bore the purplish skin lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer that is usually confined to elderly men of Mediterranean extraction and young males in Equatorial Africa. Still others had developed strange fungal infections or other rare cancers. All had one thing in common: an immune system so severely impaired...
Kissinger explained broad historical concepts that interested Nixon but was careful not to bore the President with excessive detail. "A Secretary should never allow himself to be put in a position where he opposes his President in front of others in a meeting," says Kissinger. Silence or deferral of the issue is the ploy of restraint...