Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-school kids gathered one morning last week for a strange affair. They had come from all over the state, chatting and giggling as merrily as if they were about to see a circus. What they actually did see was apparently just as entertaining-even though it bore the ponderous title of Fourth Annual Latin Forum...
...brought outraged howls from conservatives, who wanted something a little warmer and more human. To most it looked like the same sterile brand of impersonal abstraction that so disappointed U.S. critics when the American regional prizewinners were announced two months ago. Then, only two of the eleven finalists bore much resemblance to flesh & blood; at London, all twelve top prizes went to abstractionists, among them three Americans...
From the distance came the sound of funereal music and the muffle of treading feet. Then came the flower bearers from the Hall of Columns, hundreds of them. Soviet generals bore the Generalissimo's medals on red pillows. Next came a lone soldier on a jet black horse. Then eight more black horses pulling a gun carriage. There, framed in red for revolution and black for death, rode the coffin of Joseph Stalin, the dead man himself visible through its glass dome...
...mind of his was already shaping. Russia's defeat by Japan in 1904-05 brought on the October 1905 Revolution. Koba escaped from Siberia, traveled hundreds of miles by peasant cart, suffered frostbite, and arrived back in Tiflis. Here he married Katerina Svanidze, an illiterate Georgian girl, who bore him a son, Yakov. It was a strange kind of domesticity, being married to an agitator...
Outside a glassy new brick and marble store in West Hartford, Conn, last week, a squad of men worked feverishly wiring 40,000 artificial appleblossoms to a score of real trees. Inside the entrance, four sequined, papier-mâché peacocks bore signs proclaiming: WE'RE PROUD AS A PEACOCK TO BE IN HARTFORD. This week the building opened its doors with a peacock-proud flourish: ten gallons of Arpege perfume (retails at $23.50 an ounce) were sprayed around the entrance...