Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtyards. Everywhere in the ancient capital jealous men gathered and listened. Then angry groups marched down the Street Called Straight, surged by the ass and spice markets, the tombs of Saladin and Fatima, the places where Ananias lived and St. Paul dropped down the wall in a basket. They bore rifles, revolvers, axes, sticks & stones...
...that it would not accept any more Brewster planes after July 1. It explained that it was cutting back fighter production $180,000,000, mainly because attrition had been only one-third as great as anticipated. Brewster was the last to get into Corsair production, produced feebly, and now bore the brunt of the cut. Brew ster also became the first U.S. planemaker to have all its war work suddenly ended...
Tragedy's Lessons. Defeat in Honan bore lessons: wars cannot be fought without weapons; a long stalemate poisons an army's morale and strength. Honan's defenders were ill-armed, lulled into apathy by six years of relative inaction...
...sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable I had turned his carrot. No answer. Why, into a Pa's nip! was my response." "War," growled his son, "is an organized bore...
...wild marshes and the dark forests strode soldiers of Poland's Underground Army. They bore aloft their country's red-&-white flag, marched into the Russian lines, presented "declarations of collaboration" to Red Army commanders: "We meet the forces of the Soviet Union on Polish soil as our co-belligerents in the fight against our common enemy, Germany. We bring to your knowledge that there is in existence in these territories an administration secretly organized by the Polish State under the yoke of German occupation...