Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very little of it got beyond a few four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise, the most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced in a sterile tone. Professor Johnson does not go into the profundities of profanity. Treating it as a branch of literature...
...support in Berlin and in all Germany-partly and ironically as a result of the airlift itself, partly as a result of stupid Communist mistakes. On the surface, last week's Red-staged "riots" in Berlin seemed to have paralyzed the bravely anti-Communist city assembly; underneath, they bore evidence that the Communist position in Germany was slipping. TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes watched the signs and symptoms. He cabled...
Maria Alfonsina Ghini was different from the other peasant girls of the village of San Giovanni Lupatoto. While they worked in the fields and vineyards, laughed, danced at festivals, married and bore children, Maria grew more lonely. She dressed always in black, like a nun. Almost every day she made her way alone along the dusty grey road from her family's farmhouse to the parish church. She ministered gently to ailing peasants who came to her for cures. Though she performed no miracles, it was said that once, when she was caught in a drenching storm...
...peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
...sharp dispute over whether to mention God in their text. The story, which leaked out last week, revealed much that the world did not know of the struggle between religious Zionists and secular Zionists for dominant influence in the new state. Very clear was the fact that modern Israel bore little relation to the biblical Jewish theocracy...