Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone at night. But this time, she took the chance. She never got home again. After she had been missing for 40 hours, her mutilated body, partly covered by an old piece of carpet, was found in the rubbish-strewn backyard of a rundown rooming house. It bore the Ripper's trademark: a distinctive pattern of vicious wounds that the police have not revealed...
Leach's shoes still bore dirt from Glenney's fields, when, wearing a blue suit and yellow shirt, he faced some 30 people seated on yellow plastic chairs in a bank basement in tiny Columbus Junction. Complained one farmer: "Everything that comes out of Washington these days violates the American free-enterprise system." The farmer said the problem could partly be countered by abolishing the income tax on corporations...
Then there are sections, an institution Harvard developed to make up for the impersonality of its mass-market courses. Most big courses you take will split into groups of 20-or-so people under the tutelage of a graduate student, who will most likely bore you for an hour a week. There are good section eaders, and if you're lucky enough to get one it could best the best experience of your Harvard education. But don't expect to find one easily or frequently...
...packed with 100 tons of cement, the 789-ton Shepherd bore down on the lighter Sierra and struck a glancing blow. Explained Watson: "I tried to take off the harpoon." Then, after making a 360° turn, the avenging trawler opened up to twelve knots and hit again, this time punching a gaping hole amidships. Taking on water, Sierra limped into port, and, according to Watson, should be out of action for months, if not permanently. Watson's own ship suffered nothing more than a battered...
...when Elsa and Mayakovsky came in. Unwilling to sit down to make polite small talk, he hulked in the doorway to the dining room as the others settled at the table for tea. Lili leaned over to Elsa and whispered, 'Please, I beg you, tell Mayakovsky not to bore us today. Tell him not to read us any poetry...