Word: bended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourteen miles from Mecca, signs warned in Arabic and English: HALT-RESTRICTED AREA. MOSLEMS ONLY PERMITTED BEYOND THIS POINT. ToUghlooking guards armed with clubs and submachine guns inspected passports carefully to weed out any infidel. As the pilgrims rounded the last bend and saw Mecca white and dazzling in the desert sun, their chant burst into a roar: "La illaha ilia Allah, Muhammad rasulu Allah [There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah...
ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO. will supply power-generating turbines to South Dakota's Big Bend dam. After Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization reversed previous ruling that national security would be endangered if foreign company received contracts (TIME, June 22), Government accepted $6,512,331 bid of British firm, rejecting low U.S. offer of $9,301,815 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp...
...SOUTH BEND...
Around the Bend. They were all sorts -religious idealists, graduates of Army guardhouses, drunkards, professional bad-men, adolescent adventurers; their one unifying trait was that they seemed to care little for this world. The mission assigned them sounded simple. While General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese divisions held the Japanese in position, the Marauders were to slice around end in long flanking attacks and set up roadblocks in the rear. The technique worked at Walawbum and Shaduzup; at Myitkyina it ended in disaster for the 5307th...
...Last Word (CBS, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Broadway's Abe Burrows and Commander Whitehead, at sea with Schweppes, bend the language with Dr. Bergen Evans and John Mason Brown...