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...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...
...annual sessions. Reagan and his senior aides regarded the first two that the President attended as important tests of his ability to cut a respectable figure on the world stage, but have been let down by the last three. Says one adviser bluntly: "It's getting to be a bore...
Where did the missionary impulse come from? David Treadup's heritage was somewhat ambiguous as it bore on his calling. On his mother's side: a line of New England divines, shrewd petty manufacturers, and farmers... On his father's: the vigor, tough athleticism, self-sufficiency, and forest raptures of the trapper's life ... and an almost mute religiosity, having to do with the suspected presence of the eye of God in the tops of trees and in the mysterious depths of trout pools... On both sides: strong fiber, ample courage, a constant uneasy dialogue with ancient values, and outcroppings...