Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only sign of Sylvie was a letter to the caretaker of her children. "Terrible things are going to happen to me," it said. "Have pity." The letter was dated in Paris, bore a return address near Strasbourg and a postmark near Marseille...
...refused, they beat him into unconsciousness. Alarmed, he moved back to New Jersey six weeks ago-alone and so secretly that the neighbors had no inkling of his arrival. How did Smole know the stories were true? When he had seen Adamic in New York, the author still bore an unhealed wound from the encounter...
...marriage was on the rocks. The story heard most often is that Farida left her husband because he was running around with other women, but his friends say she had her share of the blame. But in one respect, she had been a disappointment to the King: she bore him three daughters but no male heir...
...German of obvious good will, author and clergyman Albrecht Goes (himself a chaplain in World War II) seems more at home with a podium under foot than a pen in hand. His "good German" chaplain is a preachy bore who loves Beethoven and quotes Goethe, thrills to the "knightly shimmer" of a dashing captain headed for certain death at Stalingrad. But if Hitler's Germany had had the same ratio of soul-searching Hamlets as Unquiet Night, the Fiihrer's Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon...
...Seek. In September 1944, while Allied armies inched painfully up the Italian boot, three Americans from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services parachuted down on Mt. Mottarone in northern Italy, 100 miles beyond the battle lines. Big cargo chutes floated down arms and a powerful radio. Their mission, which bore the code name "Chrysler," was to make arrangements with partisan groups-Communists, Socialists, Catholics, independents-for the supply of arms. The U.S. recognized the value of partisans who killed Germans behind the lines, but some U.S. officials also realized that certain of the partisans were more interested in fighting...