Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vishinsky's ire got no further than his laughter. The Political Committee rejected his complaint, by 39 votes to 5. The U.N. recessed for Christmas, after six weeks of debate. Vishinsky, returning to Moscow, bore few fruits of victory to present to Stalin. Key U.N. votes...
...seduced a plump little French governess, discarded her after a year or so, left her in his will "five hundred pounds as some compensation of the injury." The illegitimate son she bore him turned out to be the sad apple of his eye. The sage of the minuet had sired a clodhopper. But Chesterfield was the last to admit...
...birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared his ups & downs for the past 43 years...
Like light waves, radio frequency energy tends to travel in a straight line. In the lower frequencies, radio waves that shoot skyward bounce back from electrically charged layers of the upper atmosphere, thus clearing the curve of the earth. Most Very High Frequency waves (30 to 300 megacycles) bore right through the upper atmosphere and are dissipated into outer space, so V.H.F. should not travel far beyond the visual horizon...
...Harvard Law School, the strain of being a "wop" makes him as sensitive as his bastardy. The pinch of his father's dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict; Jay seeing a friend die during his "baptism of fire" in World War I; Jay defending a pair of Sacco-Vanzetti-like philosophical anarchists without...