Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alongside Britain's famed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon, in the siege of Khartoum*; his father, Captain Youssef Naguib, marched with Lord Kitchener and a young British war correspondent named Winston Churchill to reconquer the Sudan from the Mahdi. Captain Naguib married a black-eyed Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village of Wad Medani, where his father was District Commissioner. Young Mohammed and his brothers, Aly and Mahmoud, splashed and scrapped in the germ-laden waters...
...fierce, unending war against the insects, man is getting exactly nowhere. There may be as many as 2,500,000 species of insects infesting the world, and in the U.S. alone about 10,000 of them are public enemies. Night & day they gnaw at crops, bore into homes and warehouses, attack men and animals...
...radio last week reported that housewives are apt to turn on their radios by day and save the TV set for the evenings, when the family gets together. In an advertising rate change that bore out this report, CBS radio announced a slash of some 20 to 30% on evening charges for its regular customers. Daytime rates would be boosted about 5%. The daytime boost brings CBS's rates back to where they were in 1951, when radio began to have doubts that it could outdraw TV in the morning and afternoon...
...five years after the war's end. Perhaps last week's performance came too soon: the audience seemed only mildly impressed, the applause was almost perfunctory. True, the music had its passages of Strauss lyricism, and Conductor Clemens Krauss made the most of them. But the score bore little resemblance to the lilting Rosenkavalier or the passionate Salome: it was closer to the allegorical Frau ohne Schatten or Die Aegyptische Helena of the composer's later years, and it sometimes made unreasonable vocal and emotional demands on the singers. Its story, a retelling of how Jupiter wooed...
Lemelin was keeping pretty close to that pace when his third child was expected in June 1950 and he was well along with a group of short stories entitled Fantasies on the Seven Deadly Sins. But nature intervened. This time his wife bore him a set of twins. So Lemelin had to set to work on his fourth, and what he considers his best, book: Pierre le Magnifique (a name he had given earlier to his first child...