Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winding road to Hradčany Castle, which broods above Prague's Baroque towers and its wide, grey Vltava River, came a steady stream of Tatra limousines. As they had many times before, they bore the rulers of Communist Czechoslovakia to a meeting of the Central Committee, usually the most remote and tightly guarded of affairs. On this spring morning, however, the atmosphere on Hradčany Hill was more like the opening of a fair. The usual security guards were absent, and crowds of people wandered unhindered through the castle's many courtyards. As the Communist leaders...
Fatshedera in a Mini. Thalassa's pitch is like a cactus-plain yet prickly. Holding up a wire-looped hanging pot, she sniffs: "I consider this pot a bore." Banging down a tray of bulbs on her worktable, she declares: "Now this is a rather ratty object, a relative of the onion called tritelia. It's really not worth the trouble of growing, but some people do, so I have to show it to you." She talks about cow dung as if it were French perfume, condemns tinfoil wrapping as "a crime against a blooming plant...
...Small-Bore Explosion. Many of them were being asked to criticize a profession that had brought them wealth and comfort, and there was strong initial resistance. But as debate developed, they gradually agreed that the law could become irrelevant to today's changing society if changes were not made. Most far-reaching was the contention that "access to legal services must be recognized as a matter of legal right...
...statement clearly extended to civil as well as criminal proceedings, and such a development would expand small-bore cases in a geometrically progressive explosion. Divorces, housing problems, job denials, welfare claims-all such relatively tiny disputes would entitle the principals to legal representation. Now, even with the OEO law offices that have sprouted around the country, most such cases never enter the legal process at all unless the disputant can afford a lawyer or has a claim that seems likely to establish a precedent...
...They live in the same whitewashed brick house he occupied during a 1947-49 stint as a financial counselor to the French embassy. (It just happened to be for sale again when he returned.) Their son Louis, 25, is a student in Paris. Schweitzer finds Washington social life a bore, likes to putter in his garden, walk with his family in his spare time. He has become a fan of hamburgers, motels and dry martinis. At home, he drinks California wine ("to help with your balance of payments"); at IMF's 13-story office compound two blocks from...