Word: bore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bore a disconcerting resemblance to an asphalt driveway on the move and gone berserk. As an immense flow of 2000 degrees F lava from Kilauea volcano oozed across Hawaii's Big Island, one dwelling after another smoldered, then burst into flames. Roads were buried, palm trees and utility poles snapped and fell. At least 53 homes in the sleepy village of Kalapana have been destroyed since April, and all 300 residents had been evacuated by the weekend...
Both Baghdad and the firm in Sheffield, England, that manufactured the steel casting claim it is part of a pipeline for an Iraqi petrochemical plant. But defense experts say the casting may be the cannon's barrel, which would be 131 ft. long with a 39-in. bore, weigh 140 tons and be capable of firing a 1-to-3- ton shell up to 900 miles -- within range of most Middle East capitals...
...with these direct investments you were trying to have it both ways: you stood to make a lot, but if the investment went sour it was the taxpayer who bore the risk...
...conscientious objectors and other dissidents. Slight of build and speaking with a soft lisp, De Maiziere, 50, is a religious man who has never demonstrated an appetite for public life. But he answered the call when he was asked last fall to cleanse the CDU of the stigma it bore from decades of cooperation with the Communists...
...Baker bore the scolding with a blank expression. Then both men emphasized the positive. Mandela characterized their discussions as "dominated by the spirit of friendship." Baker hailed Mandela's courage as "something the world has taken note...