Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more defensible line, approximating present battle positions, but that he was willing to discuss some compromise. One day, after Joy had stated his position, Nam II sat silent for two hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch. Joy bore the "Big Silence" (as U.N. reporters dubbed it) with fortitude. Finally, he suggested that, since the buffer zone question was at an impasse, the negotiators take up some other agenda item. Nam II refused. He would not even show Joy on a map whether or not he understood the U.N. concept...
...thunder of 100 guns died away; the ragged beat of engines jockeying in formation filled the air. The first plane bore a gigantic picture of Stalin. A 96-plane formation of civilian flyers spelled out Slava Stalinu (Glory to Stalin). Twenty-five light trainers soared through a huge loop. "The famous airman Nesterov was the first to make a loop of this kind," boasted the rich loudspeaker voice. "Stand guard over our beloved country. Glory to our youth, glory to our country...
...news: he will sing in Nevada nightclubs for six weeks, then start his own divorce proceedings against wife Nancy. But somehow everyone was beginning to find the whole affair a little wearisome. Yawned the New York Daily News in a one-sentence editorial: "Anybody know of a bigger bore just now than Frank Sinatra...
...mousy lady her later look? Most probably, says Keck, some unknown craftsman of 50 years ago or so who wanted to pretty her up for prospective buyers. In reworking the face, the painter might even have tried for a faithful likeness of Lady Georgiana Gordon: the top picture bore some resemblance to a contemporary drawing of her. But who was the restored lady? Brooklyn hasn't solved that problem...
...would agree in advance (but not in the treaty) to invite the U.S. to station troops on her territory. To Russia's charge that Japanese militarism was being restored, he answered curtly that that was a matter of concern to no one more than the U.S.,' "which bore the burden of Japan's war of aggression for nearly four years, as against six days of Soviet Union belligerency." The right of the U.S. to call the tune was a point recognized in other capitals. It was a peace of magnanimity based on power...