Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first striped flag that Tower found bore seven red "stripes of rebellion" (see opposite) for the provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Friesland, Groningen and Overijssel, strongholds of the Reformation. According to Tower, Dutch refugees carried this flag with them to the southern counties of England, where Puritanism was strongest, and around 1574 it began to appear on British ships, sometimes with four red stripes, and sometimes with the red cross of St. George in the canton (the upper corner next to the staff). Contemporary views show that it was carried by some ships against the Spanish Armada...
...English maidservant named Mary Fisher stood before the court of the Sultan of Turkey, as anomalous as a pair of shoes in a mosque, and told its zealous Moslem members about the virtues of Christianity. Her presence there, alone and defenseless, bore witness to the compelling nature of the Quaker "concern," a strong inward urge to take some action to meet a certain situation. Mary Fisher satisfied her concern, was respectfully heard and allowed to depart in peace...
...Ignorant men in high places," snorted Higgins, as he kept on looking. In 1892. promising "millions," he persuaded three fellow Beaumonters to back him, but all he returned was three dry Spindletop holes. He became the town bore. Beaumont residents sneeringly called him "the millionaire." Desperate for a believer, Higgins advertised in a New York trade journal the glowing promise of oil, gas and sulphur in Spindletop, and flushed one reply. It was enough. Dalmatian-born Anthony Lucas, one time Austrian naval lieutenant who came to the U.S. to visit and stayed on to work as a mining engineer, agreed...
Skirting Tunis' subdued French quarter, Bourguiba's cavalcade proceeded amidst the thunder of drums and the shrilling of native pipes, through festooned streets and stopped before a small, dilapidated house. The adoring crowd surged forward, bore Bourguiba up three flights of stairs to the tiny apartment where his wife has lain bedridden during the last six months of his exile in France...
Primitive television systems used a "flying spot." A thin beam of light scanned the scene, and its reflected brightness as it crossed light and dark areas was turned by a photosensitive cell into an electrical signal. Changed back into light, the signal produced an image that bore a vague resemblance to the original scene...