Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Lubchansky, as Alceste, to whom the whole world is "detestable," bears the brunt of the exposition of a role on which Moliere leaves his audience as judge. Lubchansky's interpretation is most notable for its absence, and although he competently portrays Alceste's disillusionment and dark anger, he plays the role straight, leaving his listeners to decide whether he is a justifiably pessimistic cynic or a ridiculous crank...
Unlike the Dutch, the French troops (including the veteran 2nd Armored Division) bore the brunt of the fighting. Last week they captured the focal Annamite resistance center of Tayninh, some 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and got their first overland link with food-rich Cambodia. But the Annamites kept up bitter fighting in the bamboo forests, effectively sniped and sabotaged...
They had made some contribution to the Allied war effort by their guerrilla activities, though the brunt of Chinese resistance was borne by Chiang's troops. They were dedicated to "bourgeois democracy" now, to Communism ultimately. Of Chungking they wanted a "coalition" government, a weird, hybrid sort of ad ministration in which they would share overall control but keep their army and state...
Through the brunt of the storm, the well-clad Blitzen made seven to eight knots, at a cost of three jib sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...
...when we bore the brunt...