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Word: bored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bruises on her temples; much of the skin on her face, chest, arms and legs had peeled from scalding water. Her lower lip had been bitten in two, presumably during her agony. The immediate cause of death was a blow on the skull. In all, Sylvia's body bore an estimated 150 burns, cuts, bruises and other lesions. Said one veteran of more than 35 years on the force: "In all my years of experience, this is the most sadistic act I ever came across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Addenda to De Sade | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality. The unsettling results seem to totter between a sinister vision and a deceptive festivity. Such ambivalent reactions suit Dubuffet fine. He long ago stated his own criterion: "Art should always make us laugh a little and frighten us a little, but never bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Shock Treatment | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Besides Welz, Harvard had only three other baserunners. Jeff Grate walked in the first, Dan Hootstein singled and stole second in the fourth, and George Neville blooped a double in the sixth, but all vegetated on base as O'Brien bore down...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: B. C. Whips Harvard, 3-0; Crimson Gets Only 3 Hits | 4/20/1966 | See Source »

...book survives as more than a memoir of a battalion; it stands as a funeral service for a generation, the somber record of all men who not only bore themselves well in the face of a great calamity, but found their lives enhanced by it. There is no rhetoric; Chapman puts out no flags, but guards the human honor of his battalion like a mourner concealing his grief from strangers at the graveside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funeral March | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...dreams, or from the more painful disillusion with fulfilled dreams. James Tyrone is a financially successful matinee idol who has risen from immigrant Irish poverty. His wife Mary, raised in a lace-curtain Irish home, schooled in a convent, has turned to morphine after the illness in which she bore her second son, Edmund, (representing O'Neill himself). The eldest son, Jamie, has wasted away an acting and writing talent in a Broadway life of whiskey and cynicism. Edmund, vaguely seeking to be a poet after running to sea, has returned to the family's summer home stricken with consumption...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Long Day's Journey Into Night | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

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