Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President frankly boasted: "The American people and their Government are doing an amazingly good job. . . ." His figures on U.S. war production bore...
...William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, once observed: "The singing of Amen at the end of a hymn always is a bore-why do we keep on doing...
...part of the Great Design of Henry IV of France and his minister Sully. Rousseau included it in his Project for Perpetual Peace. Mild William Penn was for it. So was Abbe de Saint-Pierre. But not until 1815, when the reactionary genius of Prince Metternich bore splotchy fruit in what has accurately been called the Unholy Alliance, was international policing really put to the test of action...
...high spirits, U.S. Minister Robert Murphy and British Minister Harold MacMillan made a round of calls in Algiers. First they dropped in on French Foreign Affairs Commissioner Rene Massigli. They bore good news: Washington and London had granted limited recognition to the three-month-old French Committee of Liberation. Amiable Rene Massigli expressed "pride and satisfaction," the more so because the Anglo-American action released the spring that had held back Canada, Russia and most of the other United Nations. Ministers Murphy and MacMillan went on to visit Generals...
Albert-Leonold Clement Marie, King of Belgium, was the guest of the University on October 5, 1919 when President Lowell, in behalf of the University conferred the LL.D. on King Albert in the Faculty Room of University Hall. In addition to the usual Latin inscription, the parchment bore the quotation from Shakespeare, "Aye, every inch a king...