Word: bended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Bend, Mantz began to let down for his approach to the field at Cleveland. His nose (and a compass he hadn't bothered to have accurately calibrated) brought him in over the finish line first. His speed: 435.6 m.p.h., which was 153 m.p.h. faster than Frank Fuller's 1939 record, the last time the race was held. In second place: Old Hand Jacqueline Cochran Odlurn, Bendix champ in 1938, also flying...
...Rising Wind. The best Iran's Gavam could do was to bend with the rising Soviet wind. The increased Tudeh representation in his Cabinet (which includes Dr. Morteza Yaz di, a wealthy Soviet sympathizer) got the posts of Commerce & Industry, Education and Health, but not the key posts of War, Foreign Affairs (Gavam) and Justice. To counter Tudeh agitation the British moved some troops up to Basra, close to the Abadan flashpoint...
Spare, handsome John Cavanaugh won a gold watch for leading his Notre Dame commerce class. On graduating, like a lot of Notre Dame boys, he signed on with the Studebaker Corp., the university's South Bend neighbor...
...Bases. Molotov began to bend. He agreed with the U.S.-British view that only trifling changes should be made in the Austrian-Italian border. As a result, the Big Four turned down Vienna's demand for the controversial southern Tyrol, in spite of monster demonstrations at Innsbruck...
Alfred M. Landon, 58, an old hand at coming a cropper, nursed a broken toe after too much horsing around for one day. Alf was out for a canter along the railroad tracks north of Topeka when a train came around the bend. The rider reined in, and his horse started up an embankment, then fell back on the Landon toe. The train roared...