Word: bore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cluttered, in the late Victorian style, that he acquired an early appreciation of the austere forms of 20th century architecture. With affectionate detail he recalls his maverick mother, a shabby-genteel domestic in the house of a New York lawyer, who met the man's nephew and bore young Lewis out of wedlock. The boy's German grandfather, a retired headwaiter at Delmonico's, became the dominant figure of Mumford's early years, taking him on long walks about the city...
...West Beirut, many buildings bore scars from the current crisis. Palestinian and Lebanese Muslim fighting men remained at their guard posts, as a few stray civilians removed possessions from bombed-out apartments. Near the en trance to the Shatila refugee camp, children splashed in a pool created a few days earlier when a bomb dug deep into the earth and struck a water main...
...salvation, Dorothy Day had Tamar baptized in a Roman Catholic church. "Grimly, coldly making acts of faith," she felt "like a hypocrite." She did not discover what acts of faith meant until she met an obstinate, self-educated French peasant named Peter Maurin. He believed that a Christian bore witness by simple, direct response to the immediate needs of the oppressed...
...think everyone knows at least one family who has had a son or a brother or a son-in-law killed or wounded in this war." On Tuesday, some 250 Israeli women demonstrated in a Jerusalem park, carrying placards that proclaimed GIVE US BACK OUR SONS and WE BORE CHILDREN, NOT CANNON FODDER...
...Swiss-based, iron-fisted ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore the fans. New Zealand and Honduras would increase the probability that stars like Argentina's sensational Diego Maradona, Brazil's Zico and Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge would suffer injuries...