Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a good deal of homiletics and political woe-crying in his later letters, but Belloc was seldom a bore. With his grave devotion to his religion went a fanatical belief in wine, which he liked to drink "to the Glory of God and the confusion of my enemies." He was not halfhearted in his piety toward the stuff. Off and on, over 20 years, he polished a poem in praise of wine. He found it a symbol of the good things of life denied by Puritan religions or by "Islam, furtive enemy of the soul." He said...
...Khrushchev's proposal to turn West Berlin into a "free city," nobody knew what else the U.S. thought should be done. Just out of the hospital, Secretary Dulles-who carries the U.S. State Department in his hat-took along position papers to study on the plane that bore him to Paris. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd saw a chance, in Germany's difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself, the British argued that instead...
Muleya was suddenly a hero. Joyful spectators, black and white alike, bore him from the track in triumph on their shoulders. Trumpeted one white tobacco farmer: "He may be black, but, by God, he's a Rhodesian...
...sold the well, equipment and 80 acres of surrounding lease to Turner for $2,500. Undiscouraged, Turner decided to try his own method. He thought an extremely powerful pump might draw down the water level so fast that the oil locked up in the rock would flow into the bore, where it could be pumped up. Using a tractor for power, Turner soon had the well producing as much oil in a day as the Starr Co. pump had produced in a month...
...thirty-four--or thereabouts--who thought, who hoped, he was that mysterious, ridiculous being called an artist. He never allowed himself one day of peace...He achieved nothing he set out to do. He made no one happy...he loved no one successfully. He was a bit of a bore, and, frankly, rather useless. But the germs loved...