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Word: bores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Podola himself was called to give evidence, he still had traces of a black eye, but he looked calm, perfectly at ease, rather detached. In guttural tones, he answered questions as if the answers bore no relation to his own fate. "Do you know," asked Prosecuting Counsel Maxwell Turner, leaning forward with heavy jowls jutting out, "what is the punishment for capital murder in England?" Replied Podola indifferently: "They told me in prison. Either you get off or"-he let his hand swing down from the elbow-"it will be hanging." And never once was Podola trapped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Mind on Trial | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...have been greatly exaggerated, says Obstetrician Albert L. Higdon of Teaneck, N.J. Before a Canadian meeting of obstetricians and gynecologists, he reported that studies of 21,000 mothers indicate that childbirth presents only slightly greater risks to a woman of 40 than to one of 20. The older women bore only a slightly higher percentage of Mongoloid children, suffered no more difficult deliveries, had an average mortality rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...hoofers, and at 17, for the first and only time, Mae married. She told the lucky man, a vaudevillian named Frank Wallace, that she was not in love. "It's just this physical thing," explained Mae. "You don't move my finer instincts." Domestic life proved a bore, and Mae soon sent her husband off on a solo tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: The Peeled Grape | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...obscuring her face. "You won't like it if you do see it," she promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks. I will not allow people to bore me. Nobody has ever been more alive than I. I am an electric eel in a pond full of flatfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Some of the College's practices directly encouraged what President Quincy considered sinful. Commencement exercises were little more than excuses for feasting and drinking, and since they were open to the public, crowds streamed from all parts of New England to enjoy Harvard's liquid hospitality. Class Day also bore a resemblance to a Dionysian revel...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Josiah Quincy and His School for 'Gentlemen' | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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