Word: bore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, the security unit was rocked by allegations by 11 former and security employees that they had been discriminated against by department management. A host of University officials--including Dowling and Police Chief Paul E. Johnson--denied the charges, and the Marshall Report bore their opinions...
...evidence against the five is overwhelming. The getaway car contained the fingerprints of a defendant. One of the weapons recovered from a sports bag left in a parking lot was flecked with blood from a victim. It also bore fingerprints of another defendant, whose prints were found in an apartment Darabi kept in Berlin...
...documents bore some of the Administration's biggest names, including White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, senior adviser Bruce Lindsey, communications director Mark Gearan and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. They were ordered to Federal District Court in Washington to provide testimony for a grand jury in Little Rock. At issue is a series of meetings between White House aides and Treasury Department officials connected to the Whitewater investigation. Another subpoena ordered the White House to preserve any evidence relating to the meetings. Deputy counsel Joel Klein immediately barred the destruction of computer records or the removal of any burn...
Whether psychology or economics, one thing is clear. Ames represents a new kind of spy, not the type that James Bond movies of John Le Carre novels are made of. Neither is he a Kim Philby or a Jonathan Jay Pollard--no complex web of ideological motivations bore on his act of treason...
...first he sought to reassure them by whistling Vivaldi. Then he found malicious glee in frightening them in a game he called "scatter the pigeons." One night he hid in the shadows, then sprang in front of a white couple: "The two of them stood frozen as I bore down on them. I felt a surge of power: these people were mine . . . If I had been younger, with less to lose, I'd have robbed them." Instead Staples shouted good evening and strolled away with a laugh. There are few better examples in literature of the contained fury toward whites...