Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading to the Puerta del Sol, from new flagpoles fluttered thousands of the red-&-gold flags, flanked by the emblems of Spain's single Fascist party, the Falange Espanola, and of the traditionalist Requetés. Each pole bore the single word...
Senator Wagner then bore down...
...hanker feverishly for an electric razor, but stoutly maintain that his old razor is the only thing that will lick his whiskers. A woman may love to prance giddily to the strains of hot music, but insist that nightclubs bore her, that she would rather curl up with a good book. Instead of going in for statistical questionnaires and surveys. Dr. Dichter talks to people, studies their personalities. He doesn't always believe what they...
...indulge in marital infidelity to preserve their homes." In 1933 she announced that she had had a child by British Journalist Griffin Barry. Two years later she divorced Earl Russell, charging him with adultery. Next year, at 64, Earl Russell married his former secretary, Patricia Helen Spence, who later bore him his fourth legitimate child...
...Phillips Brooks House, and with the air of a professional newspaper reporter whipped out a pencil and notebook. ten of us were seated at the round-table. Our Harvard junior manipulated his pencil. He never spoke. The function of a boll-weevil is not to speak but to bore. After the meeting members remarked to me that they were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes at his lectures, and that probably...