Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Antoinette of Austria. Sunlight pierced the stained-glass windows, illuminating the frescoed ceiling and the embroidered brocades and silks of the guests-the aristocracy of Europe and a few lords from the colonies. It was a state affair, too sublime for common folk. Only nobles whose coats of arms bore many quarterings were permitted inside Versailles's marble walls and mirrored hallways. All went smoothly until a thunderstorm rained out a postnuptial display of fireworks...
...Store 24, boxes covered labels, and all labels bore price per measure in asterisks which MassPIRG spokesmen have said are difficult for consumers to read...
...scene bore a strong resemblance to an old Peter Sellers movie. A lone guard answers a knock at the Fogg Art Museum door. The time: 12:30 a.m. Sunday. A man wearing a beige trench coat identifies himself as "Mr. Ryan," and says he was told to pick up a package left earlier...
...afternoon was a bore. Most Harvard-Yale games (or Yale-Harvard depending on your bias) go down to the last minute, not in the first. Witness Harvard's 29-29 victory in 1968: the Crimson scored 16 points in 42 seconds to win. Saturday Yale scored two touchdowns within 25 seconds, but who cares in a 35-0 game, especially when they do it in the second quarter. Even this newspaper's inevitable 23-2 victories are more exciting...
...suffered or knows a loss in the war. Said Yehezkel Shemesh, a Jerusalem restaurant owner: "We are all one mishpocheh [family]. When one boy dies, we all grieve together." Last Wednesday morning weeping mourners crowded temporary military cemeteries to attend mass memorial services. In Jerusalem, which bore more than 10% of Israel's casualties, Mayor Teddy Kollek visited the homes of the bereaved families...