Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1945, the world's high places had been filled with small men who seemed intent on proving that great men were obsolete. They had fiddled and fussed, explained and complained. Now Winston Churchill returned to power-a man who bore the consciousness of his own stature proudly, who shouldered responsibility with sober relish-a man who was a mover rather than a victim...
...cold comfort. Late that night, the headquarters in Transport House bore the unmistakable signs of defeat. Ticker tape littered the floor. Torn scribble sheets covered with outdated calculations were piled on desks. Campaign posters as anachronistic as Christmas cards in July hung sheepishly on the walls. A few party workers popped out fora beer, but most just slumped, sucking stale cigarettes over milky cups...
Pots & Pans. Such machines take months to design, months more to make. Because of their special uses, they cannot be mass-produced. Even such standard products as milling machines (see cut), which bore, grind and shave metal, are virtually handmade. Cincinnati Milling turns out only ten or twelve a week. Tool builders are beset by shortages of such components as bearings, valves and clutches. Said one New England toolman: "You hate to see a machine standing there, all completed except for a lousy little electric starter. You not only can't deliver it to the man who needs...
...only be misused." The boys slept in a large dormitory where hardly a quarter of an hour passed "without someone snoring or talking in his sleep." The lavatories had no locks. Even solitary walks were forbidden. Yet there "one met for the first time characters, adult and adolescent, who bore about them the genuine quality of evil. There was Collifax, who practiced torments with dividers; Mr. Cranden with three grim chins, a dusty gown, a kind of demoniac sensuality; from these heights evil declined toward Parlow, whose desk was filled with minute photographs-advertisements of art photos. Hell lay about...
...chambers, then put the muzzle to his head and pulled the trigger. "It was a gamble with six chances to one against an inquest." He learned that he could enjoy the world again for a while by risking its total loss. But even toying with life became a bore. The fifth time he tried it, "I wasn't even excited." The sixth time was the last...