Word: bend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years. When he first started teaching about China in the early '60s, he says, no one in America accepted any aspects of the Chinese revolution as positive, and he spent a good deal of time defending Mao Tse-tung. Then in the '60s he found himself having to bend over the other way, to avoid fostering the romanticism with which young radicals were beginning to view modern China. But last year, he says, students were much more skeptical, more conservative. Gibbs, however, didn't realize the change until the end of the semester, because his students were less argumentative, more...
...market with anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 pastiches of the work of dead artists, ranging from 17th century Dutch to Constable to German expressionists. He was, Keating blithely admitted, "a terrible faker. Anyone who sees my work and thinks it genuine, must be around the bend." Moreover, Keating said, he did not mean his phonies to pass close tests: before setting to work he would scrawl "fake," "Keating" or a suitable rude word on the blank canvas, in lead-based paint, which would show up under X rays. Nevertheless, many of the works ended up in leading galleries...
...They divide almost evenly on whether to trim existing social programs in order to balance the federal budget. The President is on the popular side of the busing issue, with 51 % favoring a constitutional amendment banning the practice and 39% opposed. The survey suggests, however, that candidates need not bend over backward to appease antiabortionists. A constitutional amendment banning abortion is disapproved...
...slug shattered the spleen, then ripped through the diaphragm, punctured the left ventricle-the heart's major pumping chamber-and entered the aorta, the main artery of the body. Like a log in a swift stream, it was carried by the blood round the aorta's bend, down the chest into the left iliac, a major blood vessel feeding the leg, where it finally came to rest. Had the bullet taken a different course-blocking an artery to the head, say-Rojas would have died immediately...
...device that enables the bassist to "bend" the pitch of a note and produce a stereo sound...