Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shorty, once a quartermaster sergeant, now a friend and factotum; George Zeyer, a bedridden history professor (Bernard's brother-in-law); and Marigold Pyke, a faded beauty who cutely refers to drinks as "drinkle-pinkles" and English pounds as "poundies," thus driving Bernard round the bend. Amis is also clearly at work on a mean microcosm for the sunset of Little England. Bernard, it appears, had to retire from his regiment 35 years ago after a homosexual episode with-yes-Shorty. What bothers Marigold about Shorty, however, is not this scandal, but the fact that although he contributes much...
...Theodore Hesburgh South Bend...
...Casablanca, or the Casa-B for the cognoscenti, is a two-story affair in the back of the Truc building on Brattle St. The downstairs has a fine stretch of mahogany for those who would bend elbows, lots of tables for those who would have conversations, and even wicker love-seats for those who would woo. It's dark here, smoke gets in your eyes, and multitudes of humanity flock here to get glued to the rock...
Visiting musicians always knew where to find him. Such rock luminaries as Eric Clapton (late of Cream), Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and John McLaughlin (soon to found the Mahavishnu Orchestra) would drop by. Hendrix would unwind, stretch and bend the notes as he never could onstage. He would make his guitar wail like a lost soul on the Delta. Sometimes it sounded like a horn, sometimes like a violin. Suddenly it would laugh its way to a final cadence. An old bottle-neck blues number might go on for a half-hour...
...bankruptcy of its pension fund because of inept or corrupt management (some pension officers have been known to lend money to friends or relatives at low interest) could leave veteran workers with little retirement income or none. In one celebrated pension catastrophe, when the Studebaker auto factory in South Bend, Ind., closed in 1963, 4,500 workers under age 60 were able to collect only 15% of the benefits they were entitled to after an average 23 years of service...