Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fits of tuberculous coughing, her 25-year-old face seared and drawn like a crone's, she heard herself accused of sleeping with a prize package of Axis agents-Count Galeazzo Ciano, Nazi Envoy Otto Abetz, a long list of others, a Luftwaffe flyer to whom she bore a daughter...
...illuminated the writings of the Church Fathers and the lives of the Saints. But their subject matter was more surrealistic than sacred. Their usual theme: the horror of war, illustrated by such symbolism as rotting flesh on temple steps. There were no heroics. In the new Dark Age, saints bore assumed names, and martyrdom was usual...
...tough is a nut? Plenty tough, says the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Two Institute physiologists wondered how much muscle the baby plant needs to work its way out of the nutshell; they tapped an assortment of mixed nuts, applied hydraulic pressure through the bore and took careful readings as the shells cracked open. Some of the findings...
...April, the third son, John, returned from the Army. The settled hopelessness in his home started him on a new hunt through the hospitals, morgues, missions, flop houses and police stations. He found no trace until he tried the Missing Persons Bureau. A blurred photograph bore his father's name, but no address. A file card said that Joseph Rogon had died of bronchial pneumonia in Chicago's dreary, red-brick Bridewell Prison Hospital...
...Poland] is not quite a dictatorship, although the Council scene bore an ominous resemblance to totalitarian parliaments. Mikolajczyk, who would win an overwhelming victory in any free election held in Poland today, and who claims to have the backing of at least 75% of the Polish people in his demand for an early free election, was completely and impotently alone with his handful of delegates...