In the six-minute song "Bear, " O'Brother relies on texture rather than volume and dynamics for its threatening ambiance.

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And he couldn't bear the thought of me or my brother missing that registration deadline because his check was late.

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He wrapped me in a bear hug and kept saying, 'Brother, Brother, Brother.

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Amina is forced to marry at 12, to bear a child though still a child herself -- while her own brother is given her dowry money to buy a used car.

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Not long ago, my family had a Thanksgiving Day touch football game in which my younger brother who is not a small man temporarily lost his senses and bear-tackled my father in the open field after he'd caught a pass.

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Born into a middle class Jewish family, she lost her father, brother and sister during the German occupation, survived four concentration camps and the Death March and went on to bear witness to the creation of Israel in 1948.

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