Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian world, its mouth on fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string...
Posted to an airfield on the hot central plain of Burma, Forrester had gone through the motions of living and flying with a sick savagery that made others think he was "around the bend." Then the Senior M.O. had taken him on an outing to a Burmese village. There he had met a pale girl of great beauty who spoke English and wore a blossom in her hair...
Among the few U.S. novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories...
...offensive and one defensive, have taken football out of the sandlot and mad it a science. Complications of shifting defensive formations have not only ulcerated the coach; they have also forced the quarterback to mix psychology and prophecy. Play-caller Chip Gannon, today, may survey the Yale lineup and bend down to call the sure-fire play for his matches. But as the Crimson rushes out of the huddle they may find the Bulldogs just ain't where they're supposed to be. Actually any Yale shifts are only the Ornithologist's birds coming home to roost--Harlow is perhaps...
Married shortly after he left the Bays ("The idolatry that goes with being a football player in the little town of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is not exactly conducive to happy marriage," he says), Harry moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he took over the end coach chores for Notre Dame...