Word: bores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responsible for the purchase of seven grotesquely priced ashtrays, including an admiral with 33 years of service, were relieved of their duties, Weinberger announced. The officers, all at the Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, did not pay "the slightest attention to the basic idea that the price bore no relationship whatever to the value of the item," Weinberger said...
Fertility drugs, taken by women who have trouble conceiving, have been implicated in nearly all cases of mass multiple births. The all-time high, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is held by a woman in Sydney, Australia, who in 1971 bore nine babies; none survived beyond six days. Pergonal, a mixture of hormones obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, stimulates maturation of egg-bearing follicles within the ovaries; sometimes too many eggs are eventually released. "The problem is, it's a very, very delicate balance how much of the stuff to use," says Allan Weingold...
...Pauley about their dramatic face-to-face meeting the night before, at which Webb said she could not "apologize enough" to Dotson. "He's not a rapist," Webb said. "He doesn't have the character of a rapist." The painfully inarticulate Dotson insisted he was not angry, that he bore more ill will against the system than against his false accuser...
...woman or a sophisticated society girl in such films as Cecil B. DeMille's Saturday Night and Manslaughter (both 1922), and in his original The Ten Commandments (1923); in the Bronx, N.Y. She was the second wife of the silents' "Great Lover," John Gilbert, from 1922 to '24, and bore him a daughter...
Above all, von Weizsacker said, "there is truly no reason for us today to participate in victory celebrations. But there is every reason for us to perceive May 8, 1945, as the end of an aberration in German history." This, said the President, bore the seeds of hope for a better future...