Word: bend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wichman cheers up considerably after Hitech makes mincemeat of two more players: an inventory manager for a Racine, Wis., restaurant and a university student from South Bend, Ind. The latter winces as an unfeeling observer calls out, "You didn't let the machine beatcha, did ya?" Contestant Daniel Kamen, an Arlington Heights, Ill., chiropractor, is considerably more empathetic. "It's a monster! You can't blow smoke in its face," he complains. "It doesn't care if you're obnoxious or if you have bad breath. You just can't rattle it. I wouldn't want to play Hitech...
Home is Mexico, the reason why the single-story trading post was built here, on high ground a respectful 200 yards from the Rio Grande in the Big Bend National Park area of Texas, sometime around the turn of the century. The border is still the major reason for the trading post's existence. There are no U.S. or Mexican customs and immigration stations within 50 miles, and tradition has allowed for free movement across the border. "Occasionally the border patrol will cruise by," remarks Christine Gutierrez, who works at the trading post but lives across the river. "They seldom...
...Midwest Regional on Thursday at South Bend, Ind., Purdue (27-3) meets Fairleigh Dickinson (23-6) and Baylor (23-9) duels Memphis State (19-10) going into Sunday's Metro Conference final. Also, DePaul (21-7) goes against Wichita State (20-9) and Kansas State (22-7) going into Sunday's Big Eight final, plays La Salle...
...plenty of viewers who can still recite, at any mention of Reeves in his foam-rubber muscles, a quasi-liturgical text: ". . . Strange visitor from another planet, who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and . . . fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American...
Imagine six weeks' worth of British mail, more than a billion envelopes, stamped with the postmark JESUS IS ALIVE! It's enough to drive a nonbeliever round the bend. So it was no surprise that an outcry ensued when the slogan premiered last week, courtesy of Paul Slennett, owner of a religious book shop, who paid $88,500 for the postmark...