Word: bend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life with Father. In South Bend, Ind., Frank Spiteri landed in jail after he stormed into the store where his 19-year-old son Mezerino worked, beat him with a pipe, cried: "This is for the 18 years I've been feeding...
...Trade Act. The measure makes a logical and encouraging sequence to the British move of increasing the percentage of their Continental imports, and West Germany's similar trade-easing move. The President has rightly acted to leave open the chance for lower tariffs, but he need not now bend to special interest pressure to accomplish this desired...
...propped his shoulder against the wooden doorframe. His combat boots sank in the soft mud of the communication trench. As Chinese heads popped around a bend in the trench, one by one, Stanley cut loose with his BAR. "All through the shells and burp guns," he recalled later, "I kept on whispering I believe in only one God, Jesus, and crying out the Lord is my shepherd...
...neighbor, in what time he can spare from his own farming, or to your aged parents. My father and mother are running my farm for me. Each time I go back, I can see they've got a little nearer the edge. They're going round the bend, under the strain of listening to every night noise, watching every black face. I bought them a radio." The farmer laughed derisively. "They don't dare to switch it on any longer! It might drown the other sort of noises they're always listening...
...dirty politics for the sake of the "right" combination of Greek-letter men, draw only one line in life-the color line, think that a pin serves as the key to every door approached, judge another by her seams instead of her soul, bow to a "beta" but never bend her knee in prayer, or be humiliating but never humble...