Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yeah, well I don't have it." Bobby turned abruptly away from the bore and fastened his eyes on the confusing "Heaven Can Wait" billboard advertisement across the way. The idiot turned on his Panasonic portable high-powered supersonic radio/tape machine with big sound holes and switches, blaring intolerable music. He poked Bobby in the arm again...
...suspense along with the carnage. In Jaws 2, the mechanical shark rears its fake head at virtually every appearance and attacks with predictable regularity. There may be more casualties than last time around, but more proves to be much less. The prosaic shark of Jaws 2 becomes such a bore he might as well be a carp...
When for a passport, or some other bar To freedom, he applied (a grief and a bore), If he found not in this spawn of tax born riches, Like lap dogs, the least civil sons of bitches...
...fact is that Jimmy Carter and his entourage bore the Washington press corps," Hess writes in the Washington Post. "Reporters in the capital have had a steady diet of excitement in recent years-with the exception of the brief Ford interregnum-and have come to require bigger and bigger doses of news intoxicants." Certainly neither Vance nor Brzezinski is as fascinating as Kissinger (their side comments are never as memorable as his), and Carter isn't as outlandish as Lyndon Johnson or as malignant as Nixon. What to do then...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, asked a group of Harvard students to discontinue the sale of specialized t-shirts purportedly celebrating Radcliffe's centennial. The shirts, which bore the slogans, "Once a Bitch, Always a Bitch," and "Radcliffe--Where the Women Come First," were reportedly selling well at the time of Epps's request. "We're not going to lose our shirts," one of the t-shirt salesmen remarked, we hope in jest...