Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Equals. George Marshall's last shot was right on the target. It bore in upon the committeemen that the old Army-Navy game was still being played. The two services had separate approaches to separate committees of the House and Senate,.for separate funds to achieve overlapping objectives...
Aurore Dupin was a center of controversy from the day she was born. Her mother, Sophie, daughter of a Paris bird-seller, bore several illegitimate children (they all died) to her aristocratic lover, Captain Maurice Dupin, before he was persuaded into marriage a month before Aurore's birth. Then mother and daughter hooked themselves onto the baggage train of Napoleon's Peninsular armies and trailed around after the captain, who was aide-de-camp to Marshal Murat...
...Truman Administration had drawn together proposals which bore the symbol "H.R. 4280" and the name of irascible Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. May's group and a special Senate committee held hearings, got advice from scientists so strongly worded and with such a weight of learning behind it that something like the May bill seemed sure to pass...
...deserted, was later summoned home to perform another of his mighty labors. "Holy Serpents!" he growled. "Tell me what [it is] this time?" The job-cleaning the Augean Stables-didn't take Hercules long. Afterwards, he stayed around with the high priestess of Lydia-who in due time bore male triplets. In gratitude, the priestess taught Hercules how to spin, and tied up his hair in blue braids; he was crazy about it, and admitted confidentially that he had always wanted to be a woman...
...Empey bore this routine patiently, so long as the war was on, and even for a few days after the peace. Then one day he got mad. If Admiral Nimitz could list warships in Tokyo Bay, he said, William Empey could list merchant ships in San Francisco Bay. First Empey asked permission of the Office of Censorship, was told the office had been "abolished." Empey tried the War Shipping Administration, got a flat "no." The Guide-printed the list of ships anyway...