Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dabney, is that there were mulattoes at Monticello and some were related to Jefferson-but were fathered by Jefferson's father-in-law John Wayles and two nephews. The liaisons of the nephews with two of the Jefferson servants, Sally and Betsey Hemings, thus resulted in children who bore a likeness to Jefferson. While most of the evidence refuting the Jefferson paternity is noted by Brodie the historians complain that she dismissed it in her "obsession" with the mulatto question...
...ride should be long enough to "bore" the fencers, Coach Edo Marion said yesterday. "Hopefully enough to create anger that can be used against Princeton," he added...
...such daring forays, SR-71 pilots would decorate their fuselages with the silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where SR-71s are based. When TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin noticed that an SR-71 on public display near Washington in 1973 bore no fewer than 42 habus, he inquired about those missions. The Pentagon responded by ordering all the emblems scrubbed...
...president, Nguyen Van Thieu, mounted not only in the countryside but in the cities, not only among sympathizers with the PRG but among life-long anti-communists, and as Thieu stepped up his attacks on these opponents as well, it became clearer than ever that Thieu's government bore with it no hope for peace and democracy. And for all the courage of Thieu's liberal opponents, two decades of civil war have made it plain that the PRG speaks for most of those Vietnamese farmers who are not simply weary of the war, that the PRG is the only...
This is a James Bond caper and, as in the previous eight, there are plenty of fancy gadgets. Two are worthy of special note. One is a car that converts into an airplane (a bit of a bore; flying autos have already shown up in Popular Mechanics). The other, also a car, is less flashy. It merely moves in the air between the banks of a river and spins three times like a huge eggbeater before coming to rest, upright, on the far side. Now that is not as elaborate as the ability to take wing, but there is something...