Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Centuries passed. Not so many years ago the last of the Paka-Jakes returned to the Aymara people of Pacajes. He was fortyish and fat, but he had the authentic eagleface of his predecessors. He was illiterate, and he bore the earthy name of Damasco Maldonado. But he had the power to look into the future and the past and the thoughts of men; he cured sick llamas and women & children, got rid of bad ghosts and made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines...
Britain and the U.S. The success or failure of any such plan would lie in basic economic and political world conditions. The condition of Britain after the war will be of critical importance. Britain bore the economic brunt of armament long before the U.S. Before the passage of Lend-Lease, England saw her gold stocks reduced from $2 billion to $152 million. Foreign investments and other assets were reduced from about $15 billion to about $10 billion. Much of her merchant fleet has been destroyed. She has been building up an increasing indebtedness, chiefly in short-term balances, with such...
Alone Among the Roots. Away from the mike, the youngest Quiz Kid has a normal childish disdain for the silly questions grownups ask him. Last week he bore the marks of a recent poke in the teeth given him by one of his Chicago playmates...
Indifference has long been coupled with he name of Harvard, but paradoxically bore is in a corner of the Yard a building whose reputation for community service is nation wide. Starting as a religious memorial for a famous Boston bishop, it has in peacetime taught old men cribbage and young men wrestling; now in wartime, it is providing ping-pong tables for service men, lounges for their wives, and a nursery for their children...
...week, as Britain's dapper Anthony Eden arrived in Washington to begin discussions on policy (see p. 9). four U.S. Senators prepared to send another declaration to the world. Again it took the form of a Senate resolution, but it differed mightily from Senator Lodge's. It bore the names of two Democrats-Alabama's Lister Hill, New Mexico's Carl Hatch-and two Republicans-Minnesota's Joseph H. Ball and Ohio's Harold Burton...