Word: bore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saigon on April 20, Martin called at the Presidential Palace for a long interview with President Nguyen Van Thieu. The South Vietnamese leader bore no small share of the blame for the impending catastrophe: it was his order to the army to withdraw from the Central Highlands without much of a fight that touched off the final rout. In the last few weeks, he had shuttled from one villa to another, increasingly out of touch with his aides and allies, and with reality. He even speculated that bombing strikes by American B-52s might halt the NVA's onslaught. Hanoi...
...group of unemployed migrant workers gathered last Friday morning on a field at a makeshift camp in Homestead, Florida. These laborers, handy with lumber and leather and cowhide, were not only looking for work but were also looking very familiar. One man, who bore a remarkable resemblance to former National League Rookie of the Year Chris Sabo, said, "Hopefully, I'll just be here for one day, but who knows in this situation? I've always been optimistic, but I'll just have to wait and see." Actually, it really was Chris Sabo. And former World Series mvp Dave Stewart...
...also as dominating, threatening, all-ab-sorbing. The sense of a voracious emotional need that beats behind some of Fairweather's coolest and most "classical" friezelike paintings is nothing other than the desire for integration, resolved in art as formal harmony-but imperiled and sometimes overset, because it bore the print of a harsher, more primal necessity...
...song was no love ballad. Its images were graphic, and many of the lyrics on the album, "Straight Outta Compton," were downright misogynist. But Wright was dead on in describing the rage minorities feel, often justifiably, towards law enforcement. After the Los Angeles riots bore out his point, Wright told the L.A. Times: "We were criticized a lot when we first released that song, but I guess now after what happened...people might look differently on the situation...
...canaries went first. policemen in protective suits, ridiculous-looking things with gas detectors hanging out in front, bore the cages before them as they made their way grimly through the country road in the Mount Fuji foothills toward what looked to be a factory compound. It was 7 a.m. There were more than a thousand police; those who didn't wear protective suits watched the canaries closely. If the compound doors opened and the birds died, they would flee for their lives...