Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind that angry statement was the firsthand knowledge, shared by high officials of the U.S. Government, that the Chinese Communists' soft words bore no resemblance to their intentions...
...admission, Californian Clifford Rue, 30, used to be a monumental bore. He was the kind of sports fan who never could wait for the morning papers, spent half his time on the telephone badgering newspaper editors for up-to-the-minute dope. "Look," said a harassed sportswriter when Rue called him once too often, "we can't afford to take time off to give people running accounts of every cursing fight and ball game. We wouldn't have time to do anything else...
...proposal was "in harmony with the position taken by the Department of State." Meanwhile, a White House Secretary asserted that there was "no inconsistency" in the views of Knowland, the State Department, the White House and George. But Washington newsmen, constantly interested in the seeds of political conflict, bore down heavily on what seemed to be inconsistencies...
...looking plain as a mud fence in a drama about a thirtyish spinster who gets her last chance at a sad-eyed, vintage bachelor (Edward Andrews). Their hesitant, tongue-tied courtship contained perhaps too many pregnant pauses and awkward gropings for words, but even though the drama bore a considerable resemblance to Paddy Chayefsky's Holiday Song of several years ago, it achieved the agonizing ache and flowering fulfillment of the loveless who finally find love...
...hard worker and a good husband. "This man to me is not a murderer," testified Father Jeanjean, "but rather a suicide's accomplice. If I had had to judge him in the confessional, I would have considered him as a weak man who, like our Lord, bore the cross that had become too heavy for his shoulders." Judge Borricand approved the jury's verdict: not guilty...