Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opportunity. Jimmy Byrnes, once a Congressman, a Senator, an "Assistant President," a Supreme Court Justice, was also the man whom Harry Truman had once accused of "failing miserably" as Secretary of State. But Governor Byrnes bore no grudges. Launching into his inaugural address, he called for national unity to meet the threat of Soviet Communism...
...that impulse to telephone him, "Yes" to a baby, and "no" to a bore, "No" if you're asked if you-ve heard it before...
Soldiers' letters to us showed grave concern with "what people back home think." Scrawled in pencil across odd bits of notepaper, these letters bore the urgency of men at war. "The subject," wrote one sergeant, "is too grim to permit delay...
...lawyer showed the investigators a promissory note for $150,000 made out to one C. C. Hagerman of Muscatine, Iowa. It bore notations of payments on its back; the last, for $28,000, was entered on Sept. 12, 1949. The note was marked "Paid" and bore the initials "C.T.C." The sleutHs obtained a photostatic copy and departed...
...vehicle production is also negligible. At year's end the U.S. had only 1,000 tanks on order, and was producing only a small number of combat vehicles. Despite all the Washington talk of stratospheric increases in arms production, the cold figures on orders and published estimates hardly bore them...