Word: poring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married students escape the hardships of the single. "My wife gives me shirts. She knows my collar size and sleeve-length," one said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will buy nothing else." A pledge no less solemn than that of the marriage ceremony itself binds this wife not to select a necktie for her husband unless he is standing within three feet...
...said exactly what, except for his reading & writing, went on there, and no one else seems to know in detail. It is certain that he was disappointed when editors and publishers showed little interest in his work, but even disappointed authors do not usually bury themselves for years to pore over colonial history and consider the effects of guilt and evil on the soul...
Congress ended its long and laborious investigation of the debacle of Dec. 7, 1941. Last week, after 67 days of question & answer, the committee retired to pore over 67 volumes of testimony (2,741,600 words) plus 6,754,700 words of other reports and exhibits. The committee had started its work with politics heavy in the air. It ended its hearings more calmly aware of the responsibilities it will have in writing its report. It had dug deep into history, explored far into the never-never-land of U.S. foreign policy...
...British journal, Nature, sweating at every pore, last week described a few unusual weather conditions designed to make U.S. swelterers count their blessings. Samples...
...Kwangsi. Refugees flanked us in unbroken columns. This was the tail end of one of the longest treks in the history of the China war. I had seen these refugees start their march five months before on the dusty roads of Hunan, where the sun leeched sweat from every pore, where human bodies and the fields about them were parched moistureless. Now, 600 miles away, these refugees were still trudging-the friendless, the halt and the sick-overtaken by the merciless blast of the Kweichow winter...