Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...
Steamboat round the Bend. The Greene Line Steamers, Inc. announced that the 250-ft. steamer Delta Queen, which it bought last year from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will soon go into drydock in preparation for Mississippi River service. Launched in Glasgow in 1924, the steel-hulled Queen has served most of her time as a West Coast ferry. In her new role as one of the Mississippi's few extant sternwheelers, she will offer -air-conditioned accommodations for up to 200 passengers on trips between Cincinnati and New Orleans...
...over the issue of a "no penalty" contract. A two-week strike of 7,000 workers at Detroit's Murray Corp., which supplies body panels, frames and other parts, had already forced Ford to lay off 26,800 workers. The Murray strike had also forced Studebaker (at South Bend, Ind.) to lay off 10,000; the stoppage was backing up into other auto plants...
Blackwell's fast ball is generally conceded to be slower than the 98.6 m.p.h. pitch that made Feller famous, and his curve doesn't bend so sharply. But he manages to hide the ball more expertly: it comes up at a batsman out of nowhere as "alive" as an eel and just as hard to get hold of. Besides getting extra leverage from his wide sidearm sweep, Blackwell's awkward motion keeps enemy batsmen loose at the plate-just in case one of his pitches gets out of control. The third man to face Blackwell...
...First he stands at attention and says: 'I am beginning to pray.' Then, putting his hands to his ears, he says: 'Allah is almighty, exalted be Allah.' Standing at attention again, he then recites two suras (chapters) of the Koran. Then, after a forward waist-bend and a deep-knee bend ending with his forehead touching the ground, he repeats: 'God is almighty...