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...Among them was Clifford M. Holland, the tunnel project's chief engineer, who died of strain and overwork three years before the great bore was completed...
Dickens' first love, hardhearted Maria Beadnell, trampled all over him before she brusquely showed him the door. Three years later, Dickens married Kate Hogarth, whom he completely dominated. Kate bore him ten children and he adored them all, but he gave her small thanks. "My wife," he wrote resentfully to a friend, "is quite well again, after favoring me (I think I could have dispensed with the compliment) with No. 10 . . . I have some idea ... of interceding with the Bishop of London to have a little service in St. Paul's beseeching that I may be considered...
...viciously inaccurate. The snide treatment of the remarks of professors Aiken and Marne in the report of last night's peace Conference was an utterly uncalled-for distortion of both the form and the sense of those remarks. The complete, and apparently deliberate misconstruction of Prof. Fletcher's comments bore no vestige of either accuracy or integrity...
Slowly but inexorably, the armies of Communist General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
...could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda water, newspapers and books-Alexis Carrel's Man the Unknown, a Bible, dictionaries, a French grammar, textbooks on shorthand, mechanics and mathematics. Scraps of paper bore such scribbled mottoes as: "It is better to be alone than in bad company...