Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vocabulary each day...right after breakfast each morning when I have forty-five minutes to kill, It's not enough time for anything else and since I don't want to waste any time. I work on words. It is by words that we convey our thoughts, and bend people to our will...
...autobiography, the annual shift between Chicago and Harrisburg represented a change from relative captivity to relative freedom. In Chicago, Jackson had to contend first and always with the efforts of his mother and then also with those of the teachers and administrators of St. Malachy to confine and bend him to their wills. As he was later to view them, his mother's efforts began before Jackson was born. "As testimony of her love, and her fear for the fate of the man-child all slave mothers hold, she attempted to press, hide, push, capture me in the womb...
...idea, which has been treated as more or less prophetic fiction by countless writers from Aldous Huxley to Agatha Christie, carries considerable fascination. What if a pill had been available to soothe Genghis Khan or Alexander, or bend Adolph Hitler's mind to some charitable humanity? Clark's proposal is an extraordinarily dramatic extension of the argument made by Behavioral Psychologist B.F. Skinner (see cover story) that man must be controlled to survive...
...Peebles is no easy man to get it together with. He may be content to work inside the system, but the system had better bend a bit to accommodate him. "I am what...
...Memphis jingle factory, learned country-rock as a back-up singer with Delaney & Bonnie. Such rock celebrities as Leon Russell, Stephen Stills and Ry Cooder were happy to play back-up on her new (and first) A & M album -perhaps because of the sensational way she can bend a slow romantic ballad to a voice of pure honey and magnolia...