Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter of a Brighton bootmaker. Seduced at 15 by a jockey named Jem, she became an excellent horsewoman and later an actress at London's Haymarket Theater. At 18 she became the mistress of a wealthy Guards officer, who poured a fortune into her purse. At 19 she bore him a son. When she took the infant to be baptized, she named her own father and mother as the parents, and when asked the father's profession, replied with simple spontaneity: "Plumber." All this has made accurate biography difficult...
...Theosophical Society has unloosed a "tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggery-pook on the superstitious suburbs of the West." This is an unwarranted attack on an honorable institution, considerably older and more stable than TIME...
Every 15 miles another team measures the strength of gravitation, which gives clues about the earth's crust deep under the ice. Every 30 miles seismologists bore a hole in the ice and explode a charge of dynamite. Waves from the explosion travel to the bottom of the ice and into the rock beneath it. At each boundary between ice and rock or between layers of different rock, some of the waves are reflected up to the surface, and when they are recorded by the proper instruments they tell the scientists what they have found under the mile-thick...
...kind of impassioned prattle that made Franchise Sagan a sensation at 18 and a bestselling bore at 22 continues to infect young girl writers. Two current examples of vernal volubility, each the work of a 14-year...
There was speculation that new political turmoil would help the outlawed Communists bore back into influence in this coffee-growing Central American republic...