Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much improved in its last engagements, the injury and probation-ridden Stahlmen should, however, prove a considerable obstacle for Coach Jack Barry's charges. Brightest light of the season is the pitching of Burgy Ayres, who, with Captain Tom Healey nursing a sore arm, has borne the main brunt of the mound work...
...dropping clusters of small bombs that burst into flames when they hit. Systematically the Russians went after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north shore of Laatokka. Correspondent James Aldridge left it, "majestic in the moonlight." one midnight. The next night he returned, "saw a bloody glow in the sky and realized the city...
Though the entire southern area suffered severely, Rhode Island appeared to have borne the brunt of the storm...
Goalle Vint Freedley, who has borne the brunt of opposition attacks, has proven himself one of the Crimson's most valuable players, and when he is in his form, there is no one in Eastern collegiate hockey who can surpass him. A temperamental player he occasionally has his off moments. In recent games he has made more sallies out from the net and has several times been caught in a position utterly ineffectual for stopping the puck. Remembering that the netminder has probably the most difficult job on the team, one would have to admit that Vint...
...Communist Party is a "border patrol" of Russia, led, financed, dominated and directed by Russia for the benefit of Russia. U. S. workmen "have borne the brunt of the Communist efforts" and suffer most from them, but have resisted so successfully that only ten or twelve of some 48 C. I. O. unions are "more than tinged" with Communism...