Word: bend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vulgar, illiterate climbers. Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because it helped Flem to become the bank's president. Behind him he left a trail of foreclosed mortgages, underhanded legal victories, cold-blooded assaults on human decency. In him Faulkner raised a monument not only...
...Wellesley, Mass. 77 Brown, Kenneth R., Jr. '62 18 6:2 209 Des Moines, Iowa 76 Wile, Darwin C. '62 19 6:0 205 Middletown, Pa. 74 Greelish, William T. '61 20 5:11 196 Medford, Mass. 73 Noel, Harlan M. '62 19 6:1 230 South Bend, Ind. 72 Sheridan, C. Michael '62 20 6:1 195 Framingham, Mass. 71 *Nelson, K. Eric '61 20 6:2 210 Washington, D. C. 70 *Pillsbury, Robert L. '61 20 6:0 210 Norwood, Mass. GUARDS 69 Waterman, George H., III '60 21 5:8 190 E. Greenwich, R. I. 68 *Weidler...
Waiting for the President's plane at Palm Springs were red-faced official greeters: as Ike came down the ramp, windblown sand-not brassy sun-tingled his face, forcing him to bend almost double to avoid the sting. Spirits lifted as the President received a brass putter, welcoming gift from the city fathers of the "Winter Golf Capital of the World" (pop. 15,000). Grinning, Ike brandished the putter, climbed aboard a helicopter to fly 14 air miles to the hastily spruced-up Allen home. The housekeeper, Mrs. Emmet Reed, had opened the three-bedroom stucco bungalow...
...prison is tucked in a barren bend of the Mississippi, looking toward fields of Louisiana sugar cane. Inside Angola's cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...
...ones, they get nerved up by the noise," he explained, "and maybe that's the best time-when they don't think, and want to get rid of the damned thing, and hit it. If he hits, he's a fighter. You see that pole bend down and that striper taking all your line and going out 500 ft., pulling like a bull, making circles, doubling back. Then he quiets down, and you think you've got him. You start bringing him in, and bang, he's off again...