Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother is coming up then. Mothers are such an awful bore...
...Lincoln bore not only the papers' contumely but their inaccuracy. From his entry into politics up to his nomination for President in 1860, newspapers in his own Illinois and across the country could -not seem to spell his first name right. They called him "Abram" Lincoln-and, in the very story of his nomination, so did the New York Times. (Soon afterward, papers began running instructions on how to pronounce "Lincoln.") The Chicago Times repeatedly misquoted him in its report of the Gettysburg address ("Four score and ten years ago . . ."). To its credit, the New York Times...
...Lincoln staunch supporters, e.g., the Chicago Tribune and the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, and some memorable reporting, such as the Commercial's description of the elation in Chicago at Lincoln's first nomination: "The city was wild with delight. The 'Old Abe' men formed processions and bore rails through the streets. Torrents of liquor were poured down the hoarse throats of the multitude. A hundred guns were fired from the top of Tremont House...
...which resulted seemed like a deadly form of shadow boxing." Marshall gives a harrowing example: eight 7th Division newcomers went out on patrol one warm night, expecting "no sweat"; all eight were later found dead in a circle, shot in ambush by a foe so close that some victims bore powder burns. Says Marshall: "You can't beat Davy Crockett with a Boy Scout." But many of the "Boy Scouts" fought the foe to a draw...
Pilgrimaging to a Madrid apartment, grizzled Author Ernest Hemingway, 57, sat reverently at the bedside of frail Author Pio Baroja, 84, now an invalid as well as the tired lion of Spanish letters, whose works are cynical, realistic, often spoof tradition and women. Papa bore gifts-a copy of his Farewell to Arms inscribed to Don Pio "in homage from his disciple," a sweater and socks of softest cashmere, a bottle of Scotch whisky. Presenting his offerings, Disciple Hemingway said hoarsely: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted...