Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minds his reputation as the nation's sharpest hatchet man. "In four out of five pieces," he answers, "I bend over backwards to be nice to the subject. But life just isn't apple pie and Mother's Day seven days a week, and if you're going to write something that isn't going to be thrown out with, the coffee grounds, you have to tell it like it is. Look, I'm a very people-oriented person. I grew up without any unhappiness. And I just love people. But if some jackass...
...miniskirts. In a survey conducted by the Administrative Management Society, 52% of the 372 firms polled had no objections to skirts two to three inches above the knee. But most frowned on the micro-miniskirt, which one executive defined as the "for-goodness'-sake-don't-bend-over style." Nowhere do miniskirts raise more eyebrows than in the Ford Foundation's new Manhattan headquarters, where secretaries work in glass-enclosed offices. Overcome by a sudden sense of modesty, one secretary, perched at a graceful but unprotective typewriter pedestal, recently sewed a minicurtain and draped it in front...
...mistake, says Harvard Political Scientist Henry Kissinger, to think of peace as some final state of nirvana that beckons seductively somewhere around the bend. "We have to get rid of the idea that there is some terminal date," he says, "after which we live with a consciousness of harmony." In fact, Moscow and Washington seem to have come to much the same conclusion. "The Russians," notes an American delegate to the 18-nation Geneva disarmament conference, "can be bitchy about Berlin or Czechoslovakia while at the same time wanting to move ahead on disarmament." The U.S., he might have added...
EXERCISE: Put your right hoof in your right cuff, bend your elbow behind your ear, take a snort and sneeze. The consequent sensation will parallel the pretzel-like contortion which most of us have sustained all year...
...With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise, as Wayne had promised a heroine in a movie, to build her a home "at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow...