Word: bended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspected counterrevolutionaries) and to pick up servants and drivers who had worked for foreigners. An anti-Christian campaign was conducted under cover of the Communist-backed Three-Self movement, designed to cut the local churches off from the rest of Christendom, but failed when Roman Catholic authorities refused to bend to a rump Catholic Church that the Reds tried to organize. So Lo went ahead arresting missionaries, priests and clergymen as spies, or harried them into leaving the country. Of China's 6,475 foreign missionaries, only eleven priests (eight in prison and three under house arrest...
...Davis has not let age slow him a whit. He still arrives at his Du Pont Building office in Miami at 9:30 sharp each morning, spends much of his time on inspection tours of his growing empire. He pays his workers well, expects everyone-big and little-to bend to the job. Driving along a dusty farm road one day, the story goes, Davis ordered his chauffeur to stop beside a laborer leaning on his shovel. Said Davis: "Are you supposed to be working for me?" Drawled the man: "Yes, sir. I sure...
...refuses to sit on the kitchen table before he has put "a piece of clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator had he not believed passionately that "all education is a fraud"; he is always uttering loud groans and hurrying "to the coat cupboard, where he kept...
Louisiana's white Roman Catholics were also up in arms against the idea of mixing with Negro Roman Catholics. At Jesuits Bend they sent away their new priest because he is a Negro (TIME, Oct. 24). At Erath some of them beat up a woman because they thought she was going to teach white and Negro children the catechism at the same time. Last week another rebellion erupted at New Orleans' high-ranking, 109-year-old Jesuit High School...
...return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain of being alive. He begs a blonde tramp (Kim Novak) who loves him to get him just...