Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bobbled, the Russians soon shifted away from the tough line. Molotov, back from a vacation, held a rare press conference to explain to foreign correspondents that the Russian note had been "misunderstood." At that point, a new Russian note could have been predicted. When it arrived last week, it bore the marks of Molotov's skillful hand. Dropping the blunt demand of Nov. 3 that any East-West conference 1) include Red China, and 2) be preceded by abandonment of NATO and EDC, the Kremlin declared itself ready to take part in a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting...
...long since given her up as dead. Betty learned for the first time that her mother and only brother were dead. "After all these years," she cried, and bit her lip. The Palmer children were shocked and disturbed. Two days after the excitement began, daughter Elizabeth Ann bore her first baby. The child was dead. Reporters besieged the green-roofed house. After their 22 years, middle-aged Tom and middle-aged Betty were back again in the world they had abandoned...
...mistaken for a dawn"-Debussy, singlehanded, set about creating a new anti-Wagnerian style. The result was the only opera he ever finished, Pelléas et Mélisande. Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, it had a shadowy, once-upon-a-time plot that actually bore a genteel resemblance to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde...
Down below the surface two miles or so, the temperature can be determined from specially designed thermometers which have been sunk into bore holes. Estimates below that depend on the knowledge of the rock forms. Such investigations have enabled the scientists to systematize knowledge of the conductivity of any rocks from mineral composition...
...slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world of the O'Neills who bore him and the O'Flahertys who brought him up. In The Face of Time, Danny is five, too young to care about much except where the next ice cream cone is coming from...