Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend" is a merry and colorful concoction of topflight stars, tuneful song hits, grand production, and youthful romance spiced with the Preston Sturges brand of roaring comedy. La Grable displays all of her luscious charms in the role of a trigger-happy heroine with the biggest six-shooters in the West . . . --From a Metropolitan Theatre Press Release
...seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards, the two were "on their bellies" with whips slashing in a photo finish...
...partner-little, gnomelike O. A. Kelly, an out-of-work carpenter and ex-miner. By midmorning, they had tunneled to the well pipe, cut a small exploratory window in its corroded sides. Peering in with mirrors and flashlights, they saw a flash of pink 40 feet below at a bend in the old well pipe. There was no movement...
...sentry tower above the historic Pa (native Maori fortress) near Auckland, New Zealand, a single Maori warrior stood waiting. When the government car rounded a bend in the road, he called the traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...
Genghis Khan knew only how to bend...