Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year London staved off blitzes and worried. Last week it breathed easily and all too complacently while Russia bore the brunt of Hitler's attack. Last year London worried over Winston Churchill's habit of walking around during raids, listened to Parliament jump from one major war issue to another. Last week London watched Winston Churchill and 75,000 other people whisk off to Wembley for the year's biggest football match (England downed Scotland 2-to-0), winced as the House of Commons wrangled testily over whether or not R.A.F. officers should smoke pipes...
...eight months Victor and Dorothy Ramberg bore their child's screams. They nursed it patiently, tenderly; but the time came when they could stand it no longer...
...each time through two weaknesses of his foes: 1) those who bore the brunt of his attack had been forced or persuaded to quit; 2) those who stood farther away had hoped someone else would win their war for them. Last week Hitler was still gambling on those weaknesses, and in three capitals men were tempted again to yield to them. Unless they sternly put down their weaknesses, Adolf Hitler had a good chance of winning again...
Wood, accompanied by Sam Pettengill, former Indiana Congressman and a rabid Roosevelt-hater, took over Wheeler's office as headquarters for a lobby against the impending Neutrality amendments. (The last private citizen who invaded a Congressional office to bore at legislation from within was John L. Lewis: he moved into Speaker Bankhead's office during a fight on amendments on the Walsh-Healey Act. When Congressmen found out about it, they raised the roof. If anyone has tried it since, he has kept it dark.) First plan had been to hold a big lunch in the House restaurant...
...strange, half-submerged wilderness of southern Louisiana, people who live along the bayous came into the little towns: French-speaking Cajuns with their families, alligator hunters, Chinese shrimp fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped...