Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson received a head wound at the Nile which he was convinced was mortal. But he survived for Trafalgar seven years later. There, just west of Gibraltar, 27 British ships bore down on 33 of the enemy in two columns, one led by Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood Collingwood, the other by Nelson himself aboard his 100-gun flagship Victory. Nelson flashed his famous signal: "England expects every man to do his duty." Collingwood struck the enemy's rear, Nelson the centre. The British lost no ships, in the end captured or destroyed 22 of the Frenchmen. Nelson himself was mortally...
John (Give'em the bird) Robbins and Fire Dog Lyman bore the brunt of the cortical punishment absorbed by the 14 Plymptonsters, but it was Jack Ballantine who robbed his teammates of the glories for the evening by his delicate definition of the phrase "on the make...
...citizens generally were willing to accept much positive action-as they did in the destroyer-bases deal-but only if it bore the negative label "Defense." But the public did not yet admit that the struggle with Hitler on which the U. S. is to spend $6,500,000,000 in fiscal '41 was reality. To most people it was still a phony struggle, as year ago the war to Britons was a phony...
...playing at a spa in Bohemia. She left six moppets-the youngest aged two-at home in Leipzig. Contrary to the custom of the times, Richard was not baptized until twelve weeks after his birth. His legal father died three months later. Widow Wagner married Geyer the following summer, bore him a daughter six months after the wedding...
...states that "in the Houses distribution will be permitted automatically by the Dean's office except in those Houses where the Master has expressed a desire to give personal approval." Until last night all House masters had disregarded their privilege and had granted automatic privilege to any pamphlets that bore the approval of the Denn's office...