Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Street, the new feeling of confidence boosted the Dow-Jones industrial average to a 22-year high of 289.65, and by year's end traders cheerfully predicted the average might break 300 (1929's high: 381.17). If this bore surface traces of 1929-8 bubbly nonsense, the underlying facts did not. To many, the stock market still seemed the only uninflated segment of economy. Chicago's Colonel Henry Crown, who had bought Manhattan's Empire State Building, said: "You can buy stocks more cheaply than you can buy the buildings they represent." Many companies listed...
...lead at 3:15 on a weird goal by Hubbard. Kelley had seemingly saved the right-alley drive, but then kicked the puck in. The Crimson held on until defenseman Jeff Coolidge went off for elbowing at 15:39. Half a minute later, star Terrier forward Dick Rodenniser bore in all alone from the right and slammed the disk past Richardson...
Last week the long investigation bore its first fruits. Four of the witnesses who had appeared before the grand jury were indicted for perjury. To Miami's astonishment, one of those accused was Mrs. Helen Russell, 55, wife of a railroad engineer and onetime Sunday-school teacher. As vice president of a local "civic association," Mrs. Russell had led agitation against admission of Negroes to Carver Village. According to the grand jury, she had lied under oath when she denied asking Ku Klux Klan assistance in her drive to prevent Negroes from moving into the housing development...
...foot of the steep incline all around ordered them to break it up, but their only answer was a shower of stones. A brisk wind made tear gas useless. A warning volley of shots had no effect. Three waves of taunting and jeering prisoners, with arms locked, bore down steadily on the guards. Lieut. Colonel George Miller, island commander, ordered his guards to lower the muzzles of their guns and fire. In the brief battle that followed, 82 prisoners were killed, 120 were wounded: the highest casualty list recorded in any Korean P.W. clash to date...
...There are some genuinely funny moments, and Tom Ewell, a naturally funny man, plays Richard with as much drollery and as little coyness as the part allows. But people who don't want everything lip-smackingly spelled out for them will find much of the play a bore. It is less a play, in fact, than an anthology of familiar little situations, a lot of them banged out too loud and too long. In The Seven Year Itch, sex is something that not so much rears its head as never once lowers it. Rather than freshness of finesse...