Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House baseball, Leverett made the most of two hits and defeated Dunster, 5 to 2. Dick Covey and Tom Fitzpatrick each got two hits off Bunny hurler Si Lippmann, but Lippmann bore down with men on base to preserve...
...response was electric. Across the city (pop. 274,000) some 27,000 front porches glowed as the collectors bore down with envelopes at the ready. Noncontributors, conspicuous in their darkness, stood exposed before the neighborhood. An occasional householder edged outside to see what everyone else was doing, ducked back in to light up. But far more families went to great pains to be counted. At the Ralph Zeluf home, for example, collectors found a mechanic's work light nailed to the wall because there was no porch light. The Zelufs' daughter had lost a leg to cancer. Eight...
...Italy in 1874, he dropped into a small church north of Florence and saw something he liked very much. It was a big, unsigned and undocumented painting of the Nativity, which Shaw felt certain was from the hand of the 16th Century Venetian master, Tintoretto. He bought it and bore it proudly home...
...special badge, must be recommended by another person ("say, a schoolteacher, club leader, and so on"). "I want to get across religious ideas indirectly," explained Editor Morris over his double whisky in the Two Brewers in London one evening last week. "I don't want to bore young readers with dull and dry preaching...
...Promise Me?" By the time he was 16, Gian-Carlo had composed two operas and finished five years of ginnasio and a year and a half of liceo in Milan-"the usual European classical education, a great bore." Far from a bore for him were the family's jaunts to their box at La Scala to hear Toscanini conduct opera...