Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to the World's Fair in New York, watched a whiz-bang fireworks display in his honor outside a Chicago hotel, was nearly swamped by a shoulder-deep mob of schoolchildren in South Bend...
Said the President: "We do not try to mask our national problems, whatever they may be, under a cloak of secrecy. We do not try to cover up our failures. We freely admit them and bend our energies and toil to meet them. I know of no other great power in the history of the world which so freely admitted its faults and felt it had such a moral duty to correct...
...helicopter carrying Lyndon and Lady Bird dropped down outside a South Bend retraining school for unemployed workers. Thousands of children swarmed over the field, crushed in on the Johnsons. Secret Service men beckoned frantically for police reinforcements. Lyndon was stern, admonishing his admirers: "I'm not going to shake hands with you unless you behave yourselves." Several injured children were rushed away in ambulances...
...other across the Atlantic, they must be moving toward each other across the Pacific, because the earth is a sphere and they have nowhere else to go. As they move, their leading edges push against the crust of the ocean bottom, sometimes thrusting it down in deep trenches, sometimes bending it upward to form curving arcs of islands, like Japan. High mountain ranges like the Andes rear up behind the edges of the advancing continents, and where the rocks bend and break, lines of volcanoes spout their fire...
When testers complained at first of overheated feet, Du Pont changed the porosity of the material, which now has a million holes per sq. ft. At New burgh, torture-chamber machines bend the Corfam shoes millions of times, tear pieces of Corfam apart at high tension and abrasively duplicate the rubbing action of heels against shoe backs...