Word: bored
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Ecclesiastical diplomacy bore fruit last week, and with it a massive new area was added to the ecumenical movement's ever-widening embrace. At the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the World Council's central committee (and president of the United Lutheran Church in America), announced that the Russian Orthodox Church has applied for membership...
Price Instability. The Senate subcommittee bore down hard on another top G.E. executive-Vice President Arthur Vinson, a member on the inner-circle Executive Office who until last year was in charge of nine G.E. apparatus divisions and, as such, was George Burens' direct superior. All of the 19 price-fixing conspiracies in which G.E. was involved were in his divisions...
...virility. Thus it has long been associated with that most virile of pursuits-war.* German soldiers used to grow mustaches when they found their Kraft ebbing. British soldiers during the Crimean War gained a fearsome respect for their fearsomely foliaged Turkish allies, and many of those who survived proudly bore a bristle back home. Such pubigerous leaders as Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Stalin, De Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the military tradition of the brush-style upper...
...chose Agilulf, the Duke of Turin, her late husband's brother-in-law. For his coronation as King of the Lombards, Pope Gregory the Great lent the sacred Iron Crown, which supposedly bore a nail from the Cross. The Pope had good reason, so the legend goes, to show Theodolinda this special favor. A fervent Roman Catholic, she persuaded her husband and most of his subjects to abandon the Arian heresy. For the first time in decades, a religious peace settled over the Lombards, and crime virtually disappeared...
...squeeze sex out of every line, to impose sex when there is none to squeeze, blurs the sharp outlines of Jonson's play and dulls his sharp wit. The lusty zest which director Mark Mirsky tried to inject into the production bloated it into a rarely amusing, never shocking bore...