Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed east through the long twilight of the 55th parallel-which also crosses Moscow-over the frosted spikes of southern Alaska, and rumbled southward to bore through the storms that lay down the spine of the Rockies. At 2 a.m., in the cold, sub-zero blackness eight miles above the earth, she found the telltale bend in the Missouri River on her radar, opened her bomb bays, and sent-not a bomb, but a long flash on her radio...
...roads in bare feet, carrying produce to market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with the men who make the misery of the people, who destroy the temples...
...skyscrapers. "Workers of Brazil!" boomed Getulio. There was a sigh from the crowd, and then a roar: "Getulio! Getulio!" He spoke for an hour, recited his "conquests" for Brazilian workers. If elected, said Getulio, he would back more social legislation. He would provide free land for the poor. He bore malice toward none...
...strictly un-American." One U.S. officer thought she sounded like a Korean who might have lived in England. And she was nowhere near so effective as either Sally or Rose. A veteran master sergeant complained: "Hell, Tokyo Rose used to entertain you. This babe's just a bore. Now if she'd only play some Benny Goodman or something like that, she'd get some listeners...
China's government-along with millions of people who bore whole industries, piece by piece, to safety-moved back country to the gorges of the Yangtze. Wu became mayor of Chungking, the new capital. For two years, the city (whose wartime population grew from 200,000 to well over 1,000,000) stolidly endured one Japanese air raid after another...