Word: bore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outset, both bills bore genuine promise of a substantial long-term federal boost for education on a broad scale. The House bill would cost about $1 billion during the next seven years, and would provide...
After the war, old "Pop" turned his hand to the Civil Air Transport, a Chinese commercial line that is healthy and profitable still. This, too, was tame stuff for an incandescent spirit. He took a second wife, a Chinese girl, and she bore him two children to add to the eight he had by his first. But what he needed was another uphill fight to win, and there was none around. Aimless, restless, unhappy, the hooded falcon began to wane. "Pop's face," an old China hand said, "looks like it's worn out three bodies already...
...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerges as a delightful fop. Robert Evans makes the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results. The only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...
...Geneva* this week on the Middle East, to include himself, President Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Dag Hammarskjold. Surprisingly missing from his invitation list: Mao and Nasser. Every word in the Soviet strong man's message, which bore the sound of his own bluff rhetoric rather than Foreign Ministry jargon, conveyed a sense of urgency: "The guns are already beginning to shoot . . . this awesome moment in history . . . We propose meeting any day and any time-and the sooner the better . . . The world is on the brink of catastrophe...
...headed by Brigadier General Kassem as Premier and including four other generals. That the plot had been carefully arranged was obvious: within hours of the first move, the rebels announced the civilian officials in a new government, declared martial law, purged loyal army commanders and renamed military units which bore royal titles...