Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubber boats of the invaders, many a German trooper's last sight in life was the dappled carpet of rain on the river. Along the western bank, where bombs and shells clawed great gaps in the lines of trucks and tanks, Germans died by thousands, and hospital trains bore many more thousands to the rear...
...Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. . . . And the Lord remembered Sarah as He had said. . . . And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age.-Genesis...
...after a tight squeak with elephants, floods, striking porters, Beryl Markham decided to fly to London. A year in London taught her, for the first time in her busy life, how "to discuss the bore dom of being alive with any intelligence." So it was only a question of time until she would escape from boredom through action. She escaped by flying the Atlantic...
They live in and on wood. They build and bore for themselves airtight galleries which shut out light, diseases, most enemies. These galleries also keep their colonies humid and draftless, so that the soft-bodied insects do not dry up. This sheltered existence makes termites hard to fight. When soil-nesting termites travel to find wood, they construct long covered runways, which may reach even to the second floor of a house...
Interest in rockets fizzled out about 1885 because of artillery improvements like the rifled bore, breech loading, independent recoil. As early as 1922, the Germans resumed secret experiments with military rockets. So did the armies of other nations, including...