Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parents had married him to a village girl when he was 14. He discarded the girl back home, with whom he had never lived, and married Yang K'ai-hui, a professor's daughter and an active Communist. Friends celebrated their marriage as an "ideal romance." She bore him two sons, both of whom were educated in Moscow. Yang was executed by Hunan's anti-Communist Governor Ho Chien...
...Athens' swank Grande Bretagne Hotel, someone slipped a note under the door of the suite occupied by Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, the U.S. commander in Greece. The note appeared to have been written in blood. It bore the crudely lettered words, "Tomorrow you die," and a picture of a blood-dripping dagger...
...supplement in such family journals as the New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...
...windup of the program, a rally in Constitution Hall, drew a near-capacity crowd of 3,600. Speakers bore down heavily on Catholics who want state support for church schools. Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "One of the most important bastions of the fortress of religious liberty is the American principle of the separation of church and state. A full-scale attack upon this principle . . . has been launched by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church . . . The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in the separation of church and state . . . The question of public support for parochial education does...
Here & there police and soldiers, armed with Sten and Bren guns, did their best to herd the homeless into improvised stockades to protect them from the blacks. From one stockade the panicked Indians tried to escape by jumping from a 500-foot cliff as a swarm of Zulus bore down on them screaming shrill battle cries...