Word: bores
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...woman: at 18 she was working for the feminist cause, including distributing pamphlets urging women to "make themselves heard," while just two years later she was accepting a convenient marriage to George Tuttle Brokaw, an unstable millionaire 23 years her senior who was, by her own characteristic admission, a " bore...
...grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford II bore one of the most powerful names in American business. He used it wisely to save the second largest U.S. automaker in its dark days after World War II. He used it arrogantly when he put down executives who dared to contradict him by reminding them, "My name is on the building...
Ruiz said that two deliberately chose a frivolous approach for their mutual campaign. "It's a joke, it's fun. We don't want to bore [the voters]," Ruiz said...
...same business. "Oh, no, we're not," shot back Friedman. That is the point. Do the highly charged careers of these television stars require them, even against their better judgment, to prance shamelessly on the electronic stage? Must their efforts to capture the President with their big-bore cameras and intimidating snarls become a prime-time animal act, information be damned...
...television audiences. One commercial is for a best-selling novel about a prostitute who marries the president, called "First Lady of the Evening," featuring "large, easy-to-read print and no big words." Movie reviewers critique the life of one of their viewers as he watches, calling him a bore and describing his life (from which they show a clip) as uninvolving...