Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steelmakers got into the discussion (see BUSINESS), seemed to be lined up somewhere near the Truman position. Yet even though steelmen felt sure that by voluntary rationing they could supply defense needs and a cut-down civilian demand as well, their plan bore no preventive of a grey market in steel...
...remember. I made them a year ago ... When [they] suggested 26 talks on music I wasn't enthralled. I said it was impossible to talk for 26 hours on music. It would bore everybody to death. However, I tried a few, and you know they were not quite so completely idiotic as I had thought...
...country was not yet preparing for Armageddon; it was merely trying to win a dirty, small-bore war in Korea. As of last week, before the President sent his message to Congress, even this effort was on a minor scale. For obvious reasons there was no thundering of a war machine: no thundering war machine existed...
...cost of these preparations plus the "dirty, small-bore war," even if it spread no farther than Korea, might add at least $10 billion to the nation's already outsize 1951 budget...
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly. A handsome, beguiling biography of the greatest dynast of her day, who married two kings, bore two more (TIME, June...