Word: bend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initial plea for new negotiations after their deal with Miller collapsed, had feared such a shift all along. They sensed the U.M.W.'s perverse strength: since the rank and file would not necessarily follow their leader, logic dictated that the Government try to make the more organized opposing party bend toward settlement...
...most consumers, rising interest rates are an ill wind: they inflate the cost of borrowing to buy or build. But, to bend a proverb, the rise may soon blow some good to one group: savers...
...contract goes through, the HIID will send advisory teams to three different areas in Mali, the western frontier, the south-central region, and the area by the bend in the Niger River. Team Training...
Foil fencer Gene Vastola asked the director for time, took hold of the end of his blade and began to bend it to the desired shape; the blade broke. That episode typified Harvard's experiences Saturday as Princeton turned a fencing match that was supposed to be close into an 18-9 shellacking...
...involved, notably a concept called elastic deformation, in which moving land masses snag against each other and force some of the earth's crust to roll up like a rug pushed against a wall. In this particular case, the snag is apparently occurring along a dogleg bend in the San Andreas Fault in the vicinity of the Palmdale Bulge. There the two huge plates, which normally grind past each other in opposite directions, appear to be locked together, causing a buildup of tremendous strain that eventually must be released in one or more quakes...