Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stranger stared at him, then brought forth a diplomatic identification card. Georgescu, describing the scene later at a Washington press conference, said he noted carefully that the card was made out in the name of Cristache Zambeti, signed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, dated Nov. 5, 1951, and bore the title: "First Secretary to the Rumanian Popular Republic Legation in Washington...
...stubbornness new to Washington, Wilson fought the law which unequivocally required that he get rid of his 39,470 shares of General Motors stock before taking office. Cartoonists had a field day with his unruly grey thatch and his round, heavy-jowled face-which, at the time, generally bore an expression of outrage. From a public relations point of view, no U.S. Cabinet officer ever got off to a worse start. When Wilson, under an Eisenhower ultimatum, agreed to dispose of his stock, the Senate confirmed his nomination as the fifth U.S. Secretary of Defense, and the public turned...
...noted fretfully in his diary, after a 20-minute, opening-of-Parliament speech, that the crown "gave me an awful headache." After Ireland got dominion status, he observed, in the tone of an Alice-in-Wonderland monarch: "It is a bore having to change one's title, but I suppose it is inevitable...
...young team to put them into effect. As a result, the company was on the comeback road when brother Benson Ford joined him at the Rouge plant in 1947-Billy Ford joined his brothers three years later. Henry helped teach them their jobs and, like an elder brother, bore down to see that they did them-and was frequently told to "go to hell" for his pains...
...Ford did not even bother to open-some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested him -new ideas, new words (garrulous, adulation, ambrosia), and the sly maxims he coined ("A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it" and "He took misfortune like a man-blamed it on his wife...