Word: beared
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...small cost to itself while inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Some Pentagon men were saying last week that Mao Tse-tung would not like to pay the price of prolonged sieges of U.S. beachheads, buttressed by all the fire power that artillery, airplanes and warships could bring to bear. And even if the Chinese should force the U.N forces to abandon the Seoul-Inchon perimeter, they would have a still harder nut to crack at Pusan. The farther south they go, the longer their supply lines would be and the more vulnerable to attack...
Grim Jaws. I found few rank & file Yugoslavs who looked that far ahead with that much optimism. Why then do the people set their jaws grimly and bear the confusion and hardship? Apathy is part of the answer. It is easier to get along with the police state than to stand...
...preface to the bound volume of Time's first six issues, which listed such contributors as Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte and W. S. Gilbert (The Bab Ballads), Yates wrote: "Believing that a monthly magazine should bear as close a relation as possible to contemporary events, I shall endeavour to supply my readers with materials which are of contemporary interest. National institutions will be examined and described-not as abstractions, but as concrete realities; and current affairs-whether in the region of science, art, literature, society, or politics-will be discussed from no purely theoretical standpoint. That is what...
...boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool and to ask, "Can he cite a single instance in which Britain pulled out and left her allies to bear the brunt of battle...
...hospital and home for convalescence came two daughters of California's Governor Earl Warren. Nina ("Honey Bear"), 17, had had a bout with polio, but her doctor predicted that she would be hale & hearty after a year and a half of treatment. Dorothy, 19, faced a week in bed after cracking some ribs and puncturing a lung in an auto accident...