Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turns been a businessman, newspaperman, explorer, and scholar at Johns Hopkins. For years he lived in the desert in native yurts, native fashion. Last week, with Russia at war and Japan eying inner Asia acquisitively, Mr. Lattimore's appointment and the help he will direct bore new significance...
...bill was still far from finished. This week the Committee met again, bravely hoisted gift and inheritance taxes by another $113,700,000. They kept the present $40,000 exemption, bore down heaviest on small estates. Still to come were new excise taxes to bring in $905,000,000 more. When the bill is complete, it will be subject to many a change in the House and Senate. But the groundwork had been laid...
Ruefully rubbing his backside, the shaken doctor put some highly technical questions to the parachutist, to his amazement received accurate answers. At that point the informal medical examination was interrupted by the arrival of Home Guards, who congratulated the doctor on his capture, bore the invader off. The doctor never saw him again...
...matter seem very important, that is because, in his handling of it, he does not make it seem convincing; it may be that he places too heavy a burden on his character, who not only suffers from paranois and homosexuality, but is besides, a drunkard, a drug addict, a bore to his friends, and a silly boy. Nemerov, however, is a writer to be taken into account; a brilliant stylist, he is the most accomplished writer of prose published by the Advocate this year...
...Dahlberg-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A violent blowtorch of poetic anarchy, turned on U.S. literature and such related subjects as the State, materialism, sex, war, tradition, human docility. At its worst it verges on literary hysteria; at its best it has rare eloquence, insight and daring. The book will either bore or infuriate any average law-abider...