Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tugboat Annie in manner or language, little Captain "Ma" got her orders obeyed without profanity, spent her leisure embroidering and reading in her cabin. She took time out to bear two sons (one of whom died in boyhood), bore another on a steamer held fast in an ice gorge. She brought up the boys in her cabin, slipping easily from singing lullabies to snapping orders to her crew...
...Only for Bulgaria." At week's end, the worried conferences which Bogdan Filoff had had with his King and his Cabinet bore fruit. He went to Russe, on the Danube, just opposite the spot where the Germans were supposed to be most heavily concentrated. There he made a speech in which he voiced the sentiments of Boris...
...sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished by the Free Peoples Which it Tried to Enslave. For Car 2419D an American built a concrete hall. And at one end of the clearing, commanding its whole expanse, was erected a 17-foot...
Following up warnings about the ice on the Charles, Cambridge police decided that actions speak louder than words. As George W. Hibbert '43 and Frank V. Snyder '43 were relaxing from the midyear tedium with a bit of skating, an impressive group of officers bore down on the South bank...
...choice. Willie was dead; 'Sheba was past childbearing. But Clorinda herself, broken by miscarriages, was no prospect as a mother, and Abijah took a new wife, a pitiless slut who had youth if nothing else. Clorinda realized then what 'Sheba had suffered from her. She bore her last child, dead, and slowly died herself...