Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore down through the overcast to the rain-browned runways of the Marine Auxiliary Air Station at Beaufort, S.C., only minutes away...
Still, there were no signs of popular resentment. "Oh. westerns may sometimes bore." said one Londoner 'ast week, "but for comedy shows the Americans' are so far ahead that we can only raise our hats and say. 'Tney went thataway...
...state and federal governments tried to put out the fire by drilling 500 bore holes and pumping floods of silt-bearing water down them. But the deep-down fire still burned. The fumes got so bad that mine officials kept watch round the clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...
...following in his Zen-priest father's footsteps, young Mizoguchi becomes an acolyte at the Golden Temple. From the 5 a.m. reveille ("opening of the rules") to the evening meal ("medicine") to the 9 p.m. bedtime ("opening of the pillow") the daily ritual is, to Mizoguchi, a crushing bore, though U.S. readers may find it novel and fascinating. He soon discovers that the temple Superior's path of self-enlightenment is strewn with cigarettes, sake and geishas. Mizoguchi's behavior is scarcely more admirable. A diabolical, clubfooted fellow acolyte convinces Mizoguchi that immorality...
...cultural exhibition (TIME. July 6). Filmed in a washed-out Red version of Cinerama called Kinopanorama, featuring a record-breaking-and superfluous-total of nine stereophonic sound tracks. Great Is My Country's 1½-hour barrage turns out to have been fired by a small bore...