Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December 1950, this question had its inevitable answer. Stanton Griffis was sent to Madrid as ambassador with instructions to prepare the way for bringing Spain into the European defense setup. He did his job. Last week Washington's decisions and Griffis' work bore two fruits...
...just a few weeks under 21, entered the chamber alone, walking stiffly and slowly. His large eyes were solemn behind horn-rimmed glasses. His mouth was set hard. His slim, square shoulders seemed a bit too slight for the heavy bullion of the lieutenant general's epaulets they bore. At the first step of the red-carpeted dais before the throne, he stopped, turned, and bowed right & left. A hush hung over the chamber ; the young man's black shoes glistened in the subdued light. He raised his right hand with two long, slim fingers pointing upward...
Harriman and his wife drove 15 miles into the cool Elburz foothills to the sumptuous summer palace, pressed on him by the Iranian government for his stay. While two pools gurgled in the hilly garden outside, the party took lunch. Upstairs, servants freshened the Harriman bedrooms, bore in jerry cans filled with embassy well water (to ward off "Teheran tummy...
...international advertising confer ence in London last week, British Adman J. B. Nicholas offered his views on sex ap peal in advertising. Said he: "Sex appeal ... is a corrupt, lazy substitute for the romantic appeal. Sex appeal offers few novelties and they soon bore, whereas the romantic appeal affords inexhaustible possibilities of humor, charm and sentiment." How did Adman Nicholas define advertising sex appeal? Said he: "Oh, you know. Legs and all that sort of thing...
Three British doctors report that they have found the first proved case of hemophilia (a tendency to uncontrollable bleeding) in a woman. More remarkable still, the victim bore a child without complications and survived major surgery...