Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deck Him with Shoes! At week's end the trouble crossed into Pakistan. In Karachi, 15,000 students and hired stooges of Moslem League politicos recently fallen from power marched through the streets. "War with India," they shouted, and "Down with Nehru's Tyranny!" Students bore Nehru's picture through the city, garlanded with old shoes, an extreme sign of disrespect to Hindus. By noon the mob had forced shops to close. broken the windows of the Indian bank, stoned school buses and stopped all traffic in Bunder Road, Karachi's main street. The East Pakistan...
...Scientist Zarchin defines nudnik as a "pedantic fusspot." There are many delicate shades of meaning in the word, and TIME'S definition may well fall within its subtle nuances, but I have always been brought up to think of and to use the word as meaning simply "a bore...
...artists could ignore a manager who had such inviting connections. The contracts that piled up in his combine's safes bore the signatures of such eminent names as Menuhin, Heifetz, Elman, Horowitz, Pons, Gigli. Eventually, his ever-spreading ventures were bitterly opposed by such musicians as Leopold Stokowski, who reportedly maneuvered Judson's resignation from the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934, and by the U.S. Government itself, which won an antitrust suit against Columbia Artists and an affiliate last year...
When the westbound pioneers crossed the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail, according to a legend told in the State of Washington, they came upon a fork in the road. A blank signpost pointed south, another aimed west and bore the words: "This way to the Oregon Territory." Travelers who could read, says the legend, went on to the great Northwest; the illiterates veered south to California...
...Every morning a long file of black soldiers in white pajamas used to approach the laboratory down the avenue of palm-trees. Each bore before him a bedpan decently shrouded in a 'cloth, distinctive.' They were the inmates of the dysentery ward bearing their daily offerings...