Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streamed into Djakarta stadium for the Pope's Mass. A dozen warriors from Timor Island, wearing red headgear and waving machetes, did sword dances in front of the Pope's car as he was driven around the stadium track. An ecumenical procession, including Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists, bore an array of gifts -among them a copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism's universality. "Jesus Christ shared our human condition, making himself a part of the world of his time," Paul reminded his listeners...
...doubt in the minds of the defendants. De Simone said after his trial, "my feeling is that the judge convicted me of something, and that was a political act." The other defendants were equally displeased with the verdicts, and the political messages they bore...
Bertha never posed for any photographs, and none of her relatives have any pictures. She kept to herself, never married, and bore no children. And she died without a will, leaving a complicated probate mess for her distant relatives to untangle...
...fourth term. His Democratic opponent, Arthur Goldberg, spent $2,000,000; Conservative Paul Adams ran on a miserly bankroll that totaled just $50,000. With the Democratic primary expense of unsuccessful Howard Samuels ($1,000,000) added in, the Governor's chair in Albany this year bore a $12-million price...
Open your well-dinned ears to the talk show that is life. Charlie O.'s credo has carried the day. The reticent man, even as he mutters "Crashing bore!" in the direction of the nearest Charlie O., is bullied into feeling that he suffers from constipation of the heart ("What are you holding back? Don't you care?"). The old valuestalk is cheap, "strong" goes with "silent" have been reversed. Articulate and outspoken: does praise come higher? He can't communicate: this is the kiss of death from kindergarten...