Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy is prompted by a growing fear on the government's part that other African nations, notably Kenya, may soon begin expelling their Asians who hold British passports.* Weighing the potential outcry at home against Britain's moral obligations to the Asians abroad, Heath has decided to bend to political reality. Thus the rules will reduce to an "inescapable minimum"-specifically, 3,000 people per year-any further emigration of British passport holders from so-called "new Commonwealth" nations, all of which have black or Asian majorities, and a total of about 241,000 such passport holders...
Lapses of taste are far more frequent than distortions of history, although Bolt can bend a fact with the best. Lamb's temporary political disgrace, for example, had less to do with his wife's indiscretions than with parliamentary machinations, and Lady Caroline had several other heated liaisons subsequent to the one with Byron. In the Bolt version, such niceties must yield to the demands of melodrama...
...temporary precaution, Suruga led the bend of the U to the abdominal wall and made an opening there; with hair-thin nylon threads running to it from inside the bile ducts to make sure that they stay open, this "window" can be used to draw off fluid or to instill medication. In a few months, if all goes well, the base of the U and the abdominal opening can be closed...
...whacking the players with a paddle as they ran down the court. In his first season, his team compiled a 6-11 record-his first and only losing season in nearly 40 years of coaching. After moving back to Indiana in 1934, he coached and taught English at South Bend Central High School during the week and played semi-pro basketball with the Kautsky Grocers of Indianapolis for $50 a game on weekends. After a three-year hitch in the Navy, he took a coaching job at Indiana State Teachers' College. His team qualified for a tournament in Kansas...
...most rabid rooters this side of the Roman Colosseum, the Fighting Irish invariably play over their own heads-while their luckless opponents lose theirs-in an ear-shattering din that is roughly akin to playing inside a bass drum. Two years ago, for example, undefeated U.C.L.A. sailed into South Bend, Ind., and was scuttled in one of the most startling upsets of the season...