Word: bended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Million for Now. For Studebaker the bait was equally tempting: $35 million in cash from Curtiss, enough to keep the company in business. Curtiss will buy all Studebaker's defense inventories (mostly jet engine parts), take a twelve-year lease on two plants at Utica, Mich, and South Bend, Ind. In addition, Studebaker's bank credit (it has already borrowed $29.8 million) will be raised to $45 million, thus giving it a total of $50 million for immediate needs...
...openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though he had been kicked out of the party for criticizing its subservience to Russia. Would the party be forced to bend with the prevailing wind...
...does, but her spitfire independence ("Do not let me bend my head, O God, ever") turns their love affair into a contest of wills. Jean is an urbane Don Juan, and Hélène wants to scratch her initials in his hide so deeply that they will never heal. Yet even as their love grows in intensity and understanding, they are not above betraying each other with other lovers...
Back in Lusaka, an astonished official commented on Hughes's threeday, thousand-mile detour: "All that trouble just to talk to a bunch of native crackpots? You must be bloody well 'round the bend...
Stolen Horse. Long after the horse had been stolen, the American Stock Exchange and SEC rushed to the stable, began to investigate to find out the why. The reason was plain. To finance some of his corporate purchases, Albert had borrowed heavily from South Bend, Ind.'s Associates Discount Corp. When Albert fell a year behind in his payments, the Discount Corp. took judgment a fortnight ago on $1,372,622 in Albert loans, tying up his personal bank accounts. When word got out that Albert could not pay his bills...