Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee of the Center for International Affairs, and a student Strike, the one incident which now weighs most heavily on his mind came in April of last year when a group of students, community residents, and street people seized Lawrence Hall and declared it a "Free University." The situation bore many resemblances to the current occupation of the Architectural Technology Workshop: the building was old, little-used, and rundown, and it was slated for demolition...
...novel is so bad. I suppose that the growth of journalism in the past few centuries has had a lot to do with it-people are used to reading prose that is straightforward, factual, and dull, which tells a story in the fewest possible words and doesn't bore them with details. The result, of course, has been that English prose style has gone straight to Hell. The Erich Segals of this world are cleaning up on junk that shouldn't get them a passing grade in English...
...spent two hours debating each other on whether the second slogan should be "U. S. out of Southeast Asia. No negotiations" (PL's position) or "Support the People's Peace Treaty." PL won the vote, but it scarcely mattered; thousands of posters and banners outside the meeting room already bore the "No Negotiations" slogan...
...Muskie campaign needs a skilled director. His staff was unprepared for the candidate's unusually fast start, and scheduling details have sometimes gone awry. Bernhard must also avoid two conflicting dangers that threaten the front runner: overexposure that could bore voters before the primaries, and an overly cautious approach to issues that might feed the contention of critics that Muskie is indecisive...
...hypothetical example: John was married (50); as he had hoped, his wife became pregnant (40), stopped working (26), and bore a son (39). John, who hated his work as a soap-company chemist, found a better-paying job (38) as a teacher (36) in a college outside the city. After a vacation (13) to celebrate, he moved his family to the country (20), returned to the hunting and fishing (19) he had loved as a child, and began seeing a lot of his congenial new colleagues (18). Everything was so much better that he was even able to give...