Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consent to go prospecting for "Californy gold." In later years, Joaquin claimed that he threw all but the biggest nuggets away, but his accounts show that he had a cash balance of $5.25 when he quit and went native with a Shasta Indian girl named Paquita. When Paquita bore him a daughter, Joaquin decided he wanted to be a college man more than a father and skipped for home...
...Awful Bore. As the first German Hanover to occupy a throne in more than 80 years. Frederika more than justified her regal forebears. But a Queen, particularly a mere Queen consort, with such outstanding gifts and firm opinions was bound to have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance of Greek politics. Frederika's personal charm and many good works had gone far in Greece to wipe out the stain of her German past and the fact that three of her brothers were officers in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Her Teutonic inclination toward rigid government was not so easy...
...course, we are national symbols," she once told a reporter, "but that doesn't mean we must be figureheads. What an awful bore that would...
...pioneer in the automotive industry, with a prosperous General Motors distributorship based in Kansas City, Mo., Robert Greenlease was 65 when his 39-year-old wife bore him a son. The boy, Bobby, grew into an alert six-year-old who always knew what he wanted and usually got it. His kiddie car was a battery-powered jeep, scaled to his size, and his pets included a green parrot and a French poodle...
...here, unfortunately, the whole thing was handled in the style of an old-fashioned debating society. Everyone struck attitudes, the simplest idea seemed clad in armor, there was something too declamatory for talk, yet too stiff for eloquence. High-minded and literate, the play came off a stately bore...