Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard President Eisenhower's personal Constellation Columbine, Saudi Arabia's brown-robed King Saud began his journey back to the Middle East. Moslem monarch of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud...
There they heard the piercing wails of ancient reed pipes and flutes. Priests in multicolored robes raised high their offerings-bean cake, teal ducks, brightly polished apples, flasks of rice wine. A special envoy of Emperor Hirohito bore a green, silk-covered chest emblazoned in gold with the Imperial 16-petal chrysanthemum seal. The celebration's chief speaker, Kashihara's Mayor Saburo Yoshikawa, 41, who has exchanged his Japanese Imperial General Staff major's uniform for white gloves and morning coat, was in excellent form. "It is only human nature to love one's country...
...delivering a speech on Franco-British unity; in Reims, France. Hore-Belisha did much to prod his nation into preparedness, probably will be recalled by most Britons for his term (1934-37) as Minister of Transport, when he installed orange, flickering "Belisha beacons" at crosswalks, got tagged Public Bore No. 7 (Bernard Shaw rated first) by Daily Express readers...
Entraining in Kansas City for three weeks of sunshine on a Florida key, Harry S. Truman, 72, and wife Bess, 71, bore the marks of Missouri mishaps. Bess's broken left ankle was still in a cast after a recent household tumble (TIME, Jan. 14); Harry's scalp was bandaged over a six-stitch wound he got when he slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his home during a dawn workout...
...wonder Claudine. the pretty 15-year-old, laments: ''Tomorrow [is] Sunday. No school. What a bore! It's the only place I find amusing.'' The single drawback is that "all those people were beginning to wear me out by forcing me to be incessantly trying to find out what they were thinking of doing.'' By cunning eavesdropping, peeping, threats, gathering of girlish confidences and the reading of other people's love letters, Claudine manages to stay on top of the news...