Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's airport King George kissed his pretty cousin Marina, Duchess of Kent, and shook hands with Archbishop Strenopoulos Germanos. Then a big British Lancaster bore him off to his strife-torn kingdom...
...Government was again engaged in a nationwide purge, less publicized, and as yet less bloody, than the Great Purge of the '30s, but raking Soviet life from top to bottom. Pravda claimed for the move "political significance of the first importance." The long, grim decree, announcing the purge, bore an ominous joint signature: Premier Joseph Stalin (for the Soviet Government) and Secretary Andrei A. Zhdanov (for the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party...
...Techniques of Dictatorship. But whatever the meaning of the new purge in terms of Russian internal difficulties, it bore one other meaning that was inescapable. It drew grimly, for all the world to see, the line that divides the Soviet Government from the Russian peopie. The Soviet Government is Communist; the majority of the Russian people are not. The little group of men who review the massive musters of Soviet power from the Kremlin Wall are the masters, not the servants, of the Russian people...
...Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore him a son, Zharko (today one of Belgrade's gayest problem-playboys...
Every Bulgarian voter received two referendum ballots last week. One bore the national colors with the inscription "For the Republic." The other, unembellished, was inscribed "For the Monarchy." Thus even illiterates could easily understand their patriotic duty. Further moral support was provided by the Red Army. Bulgaria's 37-year-old Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty was all but finished...