Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Scissors & Paste. One bill bore the name of Nevada's portly Pat McCarran. Actually it had started out as a catchall of five different anti-Communist measures. McCarran had gone to work with scissors and paste, put in a few ideas of his own and laid the result before the Senate. His omnibus bill was a clumsy-looking vehicle. Nevertheless it moved. It moved along the path of recent court opinions which found Communism a clear and present danger, branded the basic aims of Communism as criminal in intent. It was aimed at Communists and their organizations...
Toward Red Beach. The dirty yellow waters of Inchon harbor bore a tremendous array of boats. As far as the eye could see there were LSVPs in groups of five making endless circles before the great grey assault ships. Ahead were the cruisers, destroyers and rocket ships. Overhead, Navy and Marine planes streaked for targets ashore. The big guns boomed like tremendous bass drums. The smaller 40-mm. guns hammered away with the incessant roll of snare drums...
...years later, Luther himself married Katherine von Bora, an ex-nun, who bore him six children. He became the model for future German papahood, according to Bainton: he appeared to love his children dearly, yet he was stonily unforgiving when disobeyed, and was known to cut up his son's pants to mend his own: he wrote the children gaggingly sentimental letters while he was away from them and sometimes called them "idiots" when he was home...
...Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful, the language of love forced and artificial. With his truculence, his defensive toughness, his juvenile arrogance, Hemingway's hero quickly becomes a bore who forfeits the reader's sympathy...
Then Squadron Leader Louis Sebille wheeled his Mustang around in the Korean sky, and bore down for the kill. With him he took himself, his plane, and a whole truckload of the enemy...