Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...
...with an abstract maze or a surrealist swamp. But last week he had something to sigh with relief at: an exhibition as bright, pretty and woodenly realistic as a carrousel. The kale-green landscapes, rosy nudes and white-faced clowns all showed the hand of a contented craftsman. All bore a bold, neatly curlycued signature, Bombois, Clle...
That Goes Double. In Seattle, the Yocum twins got pains, had their appendixes removed. In Tulsa, the former Jordan girls, twins, went to the hospital, bore twins. In Weymouth, Mass., Mrs. John J. Walsh did it again: gave birth to twins-her third set in less than two years...
Local gunsters, possessing only inferior bore .22 calibre rifles were inclined to view the invitation of the Yale potshotters with alarm. "It's bad enough in the open trolleys down there with the pigeons flying around." said one, "but lead pellets might be piling Pelion on Ossa...
...Time after time one end would line up as a wide right flanker, the back in motion would dart out to the left, and the other end would get the ball hard in the middle of his stomach ten yards in front of the center. After that began to bore, Furse lateraled to one of the flankers for a little variety...