Word: bended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changing world of the atom, everything suddenly changed. Statesmen strove to raise the atomic debate from the depths of frightened nationalism to the heights of a new internationalism. Two British spokesmen, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin (see FOREIGN NEWS) strove to bend that internationalism to the uses of a strengthened Anglo-American power alignment, and Clement Attlee tried to sell both ideas to Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...South Bend, where the week's defense problem was to try and find a way of stopping Blanchard and Davis, a Notre Dame scout dispatched a one-word suggestion: ropes...
Lots of Alibi. Overnight, Talbert's knee stiffened so he could barely walk. But he limped onto the court with a crack: "There's nothing wrong with my knee, except I can't bend it." Somehow, he covered enough ground to beat Parker the first two games. Then, when the count had evened at 4-all, the two battled through 18 games without a break in service. The crowd of 12,000 rose to applaud - and stretch - when Talbert's tremendous serve put him ahead, 12-11. But after doing the impossible on one good...
...observation car was smashed. Seconds earlier, two servicemen in it had seen Section 2 coming around the bend, jumped through the window glass. There was nothing that could be done for the other 34 in the car. All were dead-20 servicemen & women, 14 civilians...
...your shoe-laces," etc. The boys who sleep in McCulloch, however, have decided that it's going too far when they send an expeditionary force across that same Charles at 0620 armed with drums and bugles. "Mahsh" Dranetz and the Boz (he's our law student from South Bend, you will recall) are all for setting up machine guns at the crossing; bleary-eyed Bienvenu is for something more subtle; such as blowing up the bridge as they pass over...