Word: borings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Dutch War Ministry to finance a new explosive, "the Bourbon bomb," on which he was working. In Delft in August 1845, Naundorff fell mysteriously ill. The Dutch King's personal physician attended him, but to no avail. A few days later he died. The death certificate bore the name Charles Louis de Bourbon...
...tents of the marines, who were heating their morning rations over small wood fires. There was only one link left with the past. In one corner of the lot, gutted and tireless, its once shiny hood and fenders burned a dull red, was the Buick. It still bore its diplomatic license plate: CDA 253. Evidently the Communists weren't able to start it, either...
...irritations of academic "busy work" exasperated him beyond his limited patience-an exasperation which has made his relations with the academic world both stimulating and stormy. He quit after two years. His grandfather bought him a farm in Deny, N.H. and turned him loose. For twelve years, while Elinor bore children,-Frost raised chickens, taught school, battled the grudging soil, fought back encroaching witch grass and sheep laurel. Working long after the children were in bed and the chores done, he slowly wrung out a lean, spare and personal idiom...
...months later the assault on Inchon bore out the editors' mid-July estimate of the situation and kicked off the third phase...
...Roman Catholics. Both groups have known Mrs. Donald Mclsaac all her life. She was born Eva Baye, granddaughter of a full-blooded Indian brave on the nearby Huron reservation. As a dark, pretty girl with pigtails, she went to Fair Valley public school, later married Farmer Don Mclsaac and bore him eight children. Now a stout, cheerful woman of 48, she still works on the farm, does her own housework, looks after her husband and six surviving children...