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Word: boredly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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McClellan bore in again on Beck. "Are you in favor of rendering accurate accounting of the funds that you are trustee of to the members of [your] union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Signal for Rebellion | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Poor Little Fellow. In 1896 a letter from Sheridan, Ark. plopped into the Washington mailbox of Arkansas' Democratic Representative John Little. It bore the news that Constituents Isaac and Belle McClellan intended to name their newborn son John Little McClellan in honor of the Congressman.* To his namesake John Little promptly sent $5. Belle McClellan, a lovely woman with a fine singing voice, died three weeks after John's birth. On her deathbed she made only one request: she asked that Congressman Little's $5 be used to buy her newborn baby a Bible. So John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Man Behind the Frown | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Addiss' Thre Songs from James Joyce captured the moods of the text well indeed. The clearly phrased "Go Seek Her Out" came off best. In "From Dewy Dreams" the disjunct vocal line violated the verbal accents and bore no apparent relation to the slow piano chords until the last verse...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Piston Seminar Concert | 5/7/1957 | See Source »

DALLAS, Tex., April 29--The greatest flood in the history of the Sabine River bore down on cities along that stream, the Weather Bureau said tonight, as scores of other Texas rivers and streams brought creeping destruction to parts of Texas...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: U.S. Offers Jordan $10 Million To Support New Anti-Red Rule; Meany Upholds Ouster of Beck | 4/30/1957 | See Source »

...placard on the counter of the Manhattan music store of Carl Fischer, Inc. was modest enough in size, but the slogan it bore was a call to arms. "COMBAT THE MENACE!" it read. "GET YOUR LUDWIG BUTTON.'' The menace: none other than Rock 'n' Roller Elvis Presley. The Ludwig: a composer with the last name of Beethoven. Last week Ludwig van Beethoven was the center of one of the fastest-growing fan clubs in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Combat the Menace! | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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