Word: pear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to prison on Stalin's orders; others, such as Czech General Secretary Rudolph Slánský and his Slovak Foreign Minister, Vladimir Clementis, were tried and hanged. From 1946 to 1953, Eastern Europe underwent show trials; the "water treatment," electric prodding, and skillful use of the "pear" (a jawbreaking ball screwed into a victim's mouth) yielded well over 100,000 "confessions" and subsequent disappearances...
Though the board had signally dented his consensus, Johnson managed to ap pear equally amiable. "We all recognize the Federal Reserve is a board of experts in money and marketing," he remarked mildy. "And I make no pre tense to being a monetary expert. Even experts have a division of opinion 4 to 3, and we do have division all the time within the Government...
...Gentleman is a neo-relict from the mothballed fleet of melodramas that Shaw laid to rust when he attacked the theater of genteel piffle. Those bygone plays were Victorian clutched-handkerchief-and-smelling-salts operas. With more calculation than wit, Playwright Dyne drapes sex in bombazine, drops gossip in pear-shaped tones, dredges up his plot from an actual 1885 scandal, and clearly depends on fresh memories of the Profumo affair to titillate his audience and breathe secondhand life into his play...
...Pear blossoms shaken by mad winds-hither and thither they're tossed; Unable to cling to their bough...
Lurking half-hidden behind the lower edge of the liver, the pear-shaped gall bladder serves as a storehouse for an essential substance-the thick, greenish bile (or gall) that the liver manufactures to aid in the long and complex process of digestion. In the young, the gall bladder usually stays healthy and does its job quietly and uncomplainingly. By the time a man reaches his middle forties, his gall bladder becomes increasingly subject to infection (cholecystitis) or filling up with gallstones (cholelithiasis), or both...