Word: borings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Orient Express sped westward from Istanbul one September day in 1921, a tall, slender young classicist gazed thoughtfully out the window. "I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...
Last night at 7 p.m. the Charles River was still. Its banks bore the mark of the hundreds of picnicing spectators, its bridges had managed tc withstand the onslaught of the some 677 shells and skulls that had weaved their way up the river, and its waters, in general, seemed to breath a huge sigh of relief. The rowing extravaganza of the fall season, The Head of the Charles Regatta, had come and gone and the Ol' Man was still rolling along...
...almost impossible to pick up a Spanish newspaper or switch on television last week without seeing grim photographs of dead policemen or pictures of coffins ready for burial. The images bore dramatic witness to the increasingly bitter and violent confrontation between the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco and its radical opponents. By week's end, eleven more Spaniards were dead. Thirty police officers and members of the Guardia Civil and 29 civilians have been killed since January...
BIRTH DEFECTS. The Ohio department of health has found that women in three communities with PVC plants-Painesville, Ashtabula and Avon Lake-bore more children with birth defects and other malformations than women in other communities in the state; laboratory research has shown that vinyl chloride can cause chromosomal damage in humans. Anesthetic gases also appear to be teratogenic, or capable of causing birth defects. Russian, Danish and U.S. studies all show a high miscarriage rate among women anesthesiologists and operating-room nurses...
...result, Boston voters were faced in the preliminary with a choice between two men opposed to forced busing, but unable to entirely capture the allegiance of the anti-busing forces. The results of the preliminary bore this out: Timilty won in South Boston by a margin of less than 3 to 2. Louise Day Hicks, a strong anti-busing candidate, carried that neighborhood by 2 to 1 over White in the 1971 preliminary...