Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After this outburst, Wadsworth, who has shown signs of weakening in the fifth and sixth innings, bore down and retired nine of the last ten men to face...
...dancers, the "children's land of enchantment" in California's Disneyland. Moiseyev was not without a few gay barbs. He tweaked gaudy American advertisements for stiffening sales resistance; the incessant screaming of fire and police sirens in New York were annoying, and many U.S. movies simply a bore. For 3½ hours, Moiseyev enthralled 600 actors, dancers, musicians and writers. When he finished, he was asked to repeat the talk, this time before Moscow's House of Journalists...
...these slings Johnson bore in tight-lipped silence. Then, with little advance warning, he showed up last week as the only congressional leader at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. unemployment rally in Washington's armory (see The Economy), drew roars by roasting the Administration for rejecting "prudent proposals to expand the economy of our country." Back he went to the Senate to show what a man of action could do. He introduced a bill setting up an eleven-member, legislative-executive unemployment fact-finding commission. Scarcely three hours after the bill was hoppered. 68 Senators had stepped forward to cosponsor...
...come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...
...names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...