Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world the problems were great. They might be insoluble. They were not likely to be a bore...
...Japs' mighty convoy sped on. Their naval forces bore down from the north; transports, assembled at Buin and Rabaul, sailed on the right flank...
While the returns were coming in, Judge Ferguson pulled a pencil from his pocket to make notes. It bore the legend UNITED STATES SENATE; he had picked up Senator Brown's pencil at the radio debate. The pencil was an omen: Judge Ferguson got 576,307 votes; Brown 549,614. Harry Kelly polled 632,674 votes; Van Wagoner...
...first Allied bombers bore leaflets, imprinted with the American flag and a proclamation from Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower to the 252,000 Frenchmen, Arabs and Berbers of the town (see cut). A destroyer nosed past the barges across the entrance to the harbor, darted up to one of the docks, disgorged a small force of U.S. Rangers, who scurried toward the big, white French Admiralty Building on the waterfront. When the docks were clear the destroyer threw a few shells, starting great fires, and dashed out of the harbor...
Since Jap bombs gutted the earth which bore Confucius-the earth which for millenniums had been worked by patient, quiet peasants-delicate filigree landscapes, white herons over blue lakes at dawn, shimmering moonlit waters of Li Tai-po are less popular themes in Chinese art. Nowadays Chinese artists turn their talents against the little monkeys without tails who have ravaged their country. Sometimes their weapon is anger, but often it is the peculiarly Chinese weapon of mockery...