Word: comport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permit the harvesting of the vital sugar crop and restore constitutional rights. But he would not personally run the show, he said. "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it," he vowed. "From now on, the people are entirely free, and our people know how to comport themselves properly...
...with antelope, deer and elk, they reached the trappers' legendary Roche Jaune River (Yellowstone). Then came the Milk, the Judith, which Clark named for his future wife, and the Marias, which Lewis named "in honour of Miss Maria W-d." though "the hue of the waters ... but illy comport with the pure celestial virtues and amiable qualifications of that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled two guns. The party was almost sunk by rapids...