Word: bended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Williams introduces his hero right in the maternity ward. A calving elephant has an "auntie" or sister elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...
...championships, despite sub-zero weather, little (pop. 18,000) Falun was jammed with some 50,000 ski-mad visitors. In the special jumping event, normally a Norwegian monopoly, the Finns, unveiling a modified "aerodynamic" technique, got their first triumph. Leaning out over his skis in an exaggerated bend that added his whole upper body to his soaring surface, Finland's Matti Pietikainen made jumps of 251 and 256 feet for an easy first place. Russia scored when bantam-size (5 ft. 3 in. 120 Ibs.) Vladimir Kusin, a Leningrad student, beat Finland's Veikko Hakulinen by 26 seconds...
...South Bend, Ind., made a strong pitch to Weeks to buy a 1954 Studebaker. The salesman's name: Paul Hoffman, chairman of the board of the Stude baker Corp...
...Detroit area, 121,000 are out of jobs. This is less than the level accepted as "normal" during the last eight years. Ford and General Motors are both employing more men today than a year ago. Chrysler employment is down (as is Studebaker at South Bend); Packard has been retooling. Auto sales have shown signs of an upward turn...
...partly paralyzed victims of past polio epidemics, three orthopedic surgeons reported a promising technique. At Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco, they transplanted muscle from the chest. Patients who could not bend their elbows can now lift weights; two who were unable to close their lower jaws, because of wasted muscles, now can chew hard food...