Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words could not, the camera's eye recorded the story of a people (see cut). Somewhere in war-torn Italy, planes dived low. In this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...
...Manhattan's Radio City last week there was an almost unprecedented musical event−a newly composed U.S. symphony failed to bore its audience. The fact that its composer was also a professional endocrinologist, the author of a book on global strategy, the writer of a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn, and an honorary member...
...conformity with time-honored Army custom the bristling new brooms of Gen erals Eisenhower and Devers swept through each other's former command. In North Africa General Devers, fresh from England, bore down on "reports," especially "lazy reports," demanded action in the flesh rather than on paper. In Britain General Ike, fresh from Africa, ordered the well-pressed Military Police into still sharper uniforms...
President Douglas, famed as an anti-union employer, bore all this philosophically. Commented one top unionist: "I think he's pretty cool but . . . he'll not be a diehard. I think we'll find him very fair." The pottery skunk on Douglas' desk, at which he used to point when speaking of unions (TIME, Nov. 22), has been chucked into a basket, along with other trinkets, while his office is being remodeled...
...Name. The Marauder never was a dog, but someone had given it a bad name. It bore the double onus of being a floozie, and from the right side of the tracks: the B-26 emerged in 1940 from the highly regarded Glenn Martin plant at Baltimore, Md., but its detractors thought it had been rushed along too fast...