Word: bore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then the pace quickened. Armed with submachine guns, Soviet crewmen paced the deck of the sub, a diesel-powered relic from the 1950s, which lay stranded like a great gray whale. Swedish Commander Karl Andersson boarded the intruder and talked to Captain Pyotr Gushin, whose increasingly melancholy air bore a remarkable resemblance to that of Actor Theodore Bikel, the beleaguered commander of the Soviet sub in The Russians, etc. Andersson emerged to say that the Soviets "blamed their accident on an error of navigation." Then he added sarcastically: "It's pretty hard to miss Sweden...
...enemies than for the Russians to be.") He has not reported formally to Reagan. He will not. "No written report or anything like that," he says with a wave of his hand. "Nor am I going to take two hours talking to the President. That used to bore the dickens...
...seconds the spectators sat frozen, apparently thinking that the assault was part of the show. Sadat rose as if preparing to salute the onrushing men. As the truth bore in with each relentless round of fire, the sounds of frightened screams and crashing chairs exploded, and the crowd stampeded for the exits at the rear. Sadat was struck by bullets or fragments. Others fell around him. "I pulled the President down, and someone else tried to shield him with a couple of chairs," Abu Ghazala said later. "I felt the bullets flying all around me. I could feel the heat...
...peace process initiated by Sadat ultimately bore fruit at Camp David the next year. Over a period of 13 days, Sadat, Begin and Jimmy Carter remained cloistered in that Maryland mountain retreat while they hammered out their historic "framework for peace." (Their joint efforts brought Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978.) The Camp David principles were embodied in a formal treaty that was signed by the three leaders in an emotional White House ceremony on March 26, 1979. For the first time in 31 years, Egypt and Israel were no longer in a state...
...Sadat bore with fortitude the loneliness that is inseparable from moving the world from familiar categories toward where it has never been. He raised our gaze toward heretofore unimaginable horizons. And when he had transformed the paradox and solved the riddle, he was killed by the apostles of the ordinary, the fearful, the merchants of the ritualistic whom he shamed by being at once out of scale and impervious to their meanness of spirit...