Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bend Over. Friction mounted last November. Students asked for a weekly paper, were told they could put out only one issue, at the end of the term. The paddlings continued and many were administered by Powell himself. Once when there was a disturbance in a study hall, four Negro children were chosen at random to be paddled in Powell's office. "They told us to bend over like when we pray," said one little girl. "I was sore about three days." Later, another child complained: "Mr. Powell whipped me with a paddle one inch thick." Three boys said they...
...Then, from the four orange faces of Big Ben will come the first chimes of midnight, slow and reverberating, creeping from radio sets into every waiting home in the land. A new energy stirs. In the shadowy silence of St. Paul's Cathedral the Watch Night congregation will bend more fervently. At Piccadilly, amid the hooters and factory sirens that will mingle with all the city's bells, young men and girls will surge around Eros, wildly yelling, singing, dancing. Less riotously, nearly 8,000,000 Londoners (provided they have been lucky enough to secure a bottle) will...
Fred W. Wegner of Kirkland House and South Bend, Indiana: Freshman Basketball and Baseball...
...South Bend, an unbelieving crowd of 59,305 saw mighty Notre Dame trail Northwestern into the last period, 7-6. This, too, looked for a time like the upset of the year. Then by sheer power, the Irish hacked and hammered at Northwestern's sturdy line, and finally managed to walk off field with their 20th straight victory since Nov. 9, 1946. The game ended with Notre Dame ahead, 12-7; it was Northwestern's last game with Notre Dame-at least for a while...
...seems unlikely that Valpey will bend over backward to show them anything...