Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel's hawkish new Premier Menachem Begin appears less willing than his Labor Party predecessors to bend to U.S. pressures for compromise. The Israeli leader seemed to taunt Carter deliberately last week when, only a few hours after he returned home from an all-smiles meeting with the President in Washington, he approved the legalizing of three Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank (see box). Carter promptly endorsed a statement by Vance that the Israeli action created "an obstacle to the peacemaking process...
...controlled reflexes. Developing the reflexes is "not a matter of guts, but of brains. Ideally you sit behind the wheel like a computer." Safety is the first priority. The finest racers preach, "First finish. Then finish first."-We walked the track, Couture explaining, always explaining, how to attack each bend, each kink. Then he drove us to the cars: Formula Fords, long-nosed fiber-glass machines that weigh about 950 lbs. and are powered by a standard Pinto engine. Formula Fords are stripped for speed: no windscreen, no headlights, no speedometer (a tachometer is your guide...
...Glenn is right, it would be difficult to deny that a key figure in the ethics binge has been Lance's boss, Jimmy Carter. Even the President, however, seemed ready to bend his rigid rules a bit. As he noted at his press conference last week in connection with another touchy subject, "There are many things in life that are not fair"*-and perhaps he has come to recognize that one of those things may be his demand that Lance rid himself so precipitately of his stock holdings. The President's decision to relax his demand for Lance...
...family sailed for the U.S., where Nabokov soon be gan to feel "as American as April in Arizona." He taught at Wellesley and Cor nell, studied butterflies at Harvard, and published stories in such magazines as Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita in 1958, Nabokov be came an unpronounceable household name.* It now seems incredible that only a generation ago a sexually unexplicit novel about a middle-aged man and a pubescent girl caused a national scandal...
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