Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...referendum was more peaceful than many observers had predicted. The people went calmly to the polls-under the eyes of Polish Army troops who guarded balloting places with bayonets fixed. It was typical that the Army's own ballots were not secret but bore each soldier's serial number...
Mary sent this clerkly lover packing, married Jesse Vineyard, also a lawyer, and bore five children. It was not until after Lincoln's death, in pungent letters to W. H. Herndon, an early Lincoln biographer, that she told why she had refused Lincoln. Excerpts: "Really you catechise me in true lawyer style. . . . From his own showing, you perceive that his heart and hand were at my disposal; and I suppose that my feelings were not sufficiently enlisted to have the matter consummated. . . . I thought Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the chain of woman...
...liked this squarejawed, plain-speaking American. If he wanted to be one of them, why, no bloke in any bloomin' office up in London had a right to interfere. Three hundred petitions ("We, the undersigned constituents of the Potteries towns . . . record our protest . . .") circulated throughout the Five Towns, bore 10,000 signatures by last week...
Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb. When the serpent of necessity hissed, the men and the woman who bit into the apple of scientific good & evil bore different names: Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Dr. Leo Szilard, Dr. H. C. Urey, Dr. Niels Bohr, Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, et al. The woman was Dr. Lise Meitner, a German refugee...
Smith, who bore his laurels proudly but modestly, enlisted in the Marine Corps during his Freshman year in March 1943, and took part in the battle of Guam as a member of a Corps Artillery outfit. He was discharged as a corporal on April 7 of this year. The registration winner, a resident of Winthrop House and South Weymouth, and an Economics concentrator, is now also the possessor of Harvard badge of merit-a free copy of every Crimson to appear this summer...