Sentence:  At this point , unfortunately , romance becomes a regrettably small part of the picture ; but consider , if you can <WSD>bear</WSD> it , what might have happened if MacArthur , for some perverse , undaunted reason , had made the same remark to an Eskimo girl in Eskimo . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  put up with something or somebody unpleasant