Word: bend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment he handed back the program and pen to me the crowd began to press forward again, and I was shoved aside. In the commotion, I dropped the pen that I had been clutching in my right hand. I debated for an instant whether to bend down and pick it up, fearing that I would be crushed...
Observe the vast plains, still the source of the kind of strength that only space can give. The Main Streets, often puzzled and outraged by change, but -- so far -- willing to bend to it, without breaking. The campuses, dotted with ugly racist conflict but still great generators of knowledge and ideas. The countless individual entrepreneurs and the omnipresent civic groups, committees, associations...
Something in the Baton Rouge air must make politicians go partway round the bend. Before their latest session ended, the state legislators pressed every hot-button issue within reach. They not only passed the strictest anti- abortion law adopted by any state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...
This concluding chapter in what has turned out to be the most delightful and conscientiously made series since Star Wars finds our intrepid explorers back in the Old West of 1885. Marty is trying to bend history around an inconvenient shooting in which it is preordained that Doc will die. Were that to happen, of course, everything that has already occurred in Future I and II would be rendered impossible. In a sense Marty is fighting not only for Doc but also for his own future, which now lies in our movie past...
...have adjusted well, a U.S. return to Vietnam might ameliorate the sense that America left a job unfinished. McClellan puts it this way: "Every time we walked down that road at the beginning of a patrol, we turned off. I've always wondered what was around the next bend. I want to go back before I get too old, and walk around that bend to see what's there. Then maybe I'll be able to put Vietnam to rest...