Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists did all the changing. In 1952 and 1953, Shanghai bore the brunt of Peking's bloody campaigns against "capitalists and counter-revolutionaries." The city's dog track was converted into an auditorium, its Great World gambling hall into a theater, its race course into a parade ground. Still Shanghai persisted in being a problem city. Its "teeming slums gave refuge to a steady flow of anti-Communists and criminals. Long after its shops and factories could provide jobs, they attracted hundreds of thousands who came from the starving hinterland in hopes of livelihood, thereby increasing unemployment, crime...
...decided what matters should be brought to the President's attention; then he cleared his agenda with the physicians. When he submitted a paper for signature, it was in as good order as was possible, it had been cleared by the Government department concerned, and it bore the "O.K., S.A." that President Eisenhower watches for on papers submitted to him in the White House or in the hospital...
Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy (TIME...
...record book bore them out. With an astonishing show of early foot, the Dodgers had made a runaway of the National League pennant race. Their pitchers had faltered in the stretch, but they were rested now. In the field they were sure and sharp. At bat they were loaded. Their right-handed sluggers could murder left-handed pitchers-and the Yankees' best (Ford and Byrne) were lefties...
...hard not to be a bore about boredom. In Russia, it may be downright dangerous. This can be deduced from the sad experience of Ilya Ehrenburg, who normally leads a full, rich, happy life in the Soviet Union, with a luxurious apartment in Moscow, a dacha in the country, a villa in the south, a talented wife, and a rag-taggle of pedigreed dogs. But in his latest novel, published in Russia last year, Ehrenburg let on that life is a bit of a bore and wondered whether it is worth living at all. Whereupon his fellow workers in literature...