Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy Mr. Truman had his most historic week since leaving the White House. First, he hopped up to Milwaukee to accept a $5.000 Steinway grand piano (for the library) from the American Federation of Musicians. On a convention platform bristling microphones, while some 1,100 professional musicians grinned and bore it, Amateur Pianist Truman banged out Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here on the gift instrument, with the nation's most loose-lipped trumpeter, Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, bleating what passed for the south half of a duet going north. Then Truman tinkled through...
Their enthusiasm was great, but their funds were low, and their rockets behaved as might be expected of basement-built contraptions. In 1932, the German army gathered up rockets and experimenters and bore them away to secret laboratories Twelve years later, the great V-2 rockets slanted down on London at 3,600 m.p.h...
...Western plains through Teutonic gutterals and mellifluous Urdu to the cool precision of Oxford English. And they weren't all Tom and Harry. There were Karls and Kims and Bongs and Phyas and Mohammed Alis and Yoshinoris and Joaquins and Chaunceys as well. Their identification tags bore legends as disparate as "Funeral Director, Waxahachie, Texas" and "Medicine, Wagga Wagga, Australia." A Good Proposition. Rotary International, like the other U.S. service clubs (Lions, Kiwanis, Exchange, etc.), was founded with the simple idea of giving plain but often circumscribed businessmen a chance to meet and make friends...
...medical profession did not interest me ... but it gave me a chance of living in London and so gaining the experience of life that I hankered after ... I saw how men died. I saw how they bore pain ... I saw the dark lines that despair drew on a face ... I do not know a better training for a writer than to spend some years in the medical profession...
...vetoed by West German Chancellor Adenauer. It was Templer who had dismissed Adenauer as Lord Mayor of Cologne in October 1945, "for not energetically carrying out the orders of the military government." But from Bonn came word that Adenauer had made no protest against the Templer appointment, and certainly bore no grudge. Another possibility: Templer is being held in reserve as Britain's candidate for supreme command of any new Southeast Asia treaty organization...