Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first disorganized days of the Korean war, the Marines were ready again, and it was Lem Shepherd who bore the brunt of getting them into the hard-pressed Pusan perimeter. The decision to take Inchon from the sea was General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter...
...barrage. What was the Buddhist attitude toward opium? What about hashish? Could the good Doctor provide a sample of opium? To the last question, Dr. Helai calmly replied that if the chairman of the meeting would examine the cigarette he had given him, he would find that it bore no manufacturer's mark. The dazed chairman took a nervous look at his cigarette and hastily scrunched...
...Bryan's summation: "Since man is a social creature, he must expect risks in social contact, even in petting parties. The only alternative is to become a hermit or a bore. Kissing can be not only a pleasant but a harmless pastime if ordinary lip and mouth hygiene is practiced." But Dr. Bryan still refuses a flat answer to the original question. If the partner happens to be in the early stages of a serious infection (such as strep throat), a kiss can still be dangerous. It involves a calculated risk...
...told, 154 artists from 24 states were represented, and most of them seemed to be doing just what they have been doing ever since the war: abstract paintings in all sizes, shapes and colors. The work bore such titles as Sleeper No. 2, Third Theme, 47, Vibration and Rapt at Rappaport's. The color patterns varied from shades of Tabasco red to jellyfish grey; some were done as geometrical designs, others as waving, leaflike forms, weird blotches of black & white, or blazing skyrockets of paint on canvas...
...President Miguel Aleutian likes to claim as one of the most notable achievements of his six years in office the successful rise of Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Recently, when his government raised a monument to Pemex in Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, the pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex' new Tenixtepec...