Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like animated scarecrows in black robes and bamboo hats, the eight monks bend in prayer around a sacred fire. The smoke is lost in the black pall gushing from a nearby paper mill. Suddenly, the heftiest of the mendicants bellows in a throaty bass: "In the name of God, know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...
...expensive transaction eclipsed both the previous public-auction record, $2.3 million in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, and the record for a private sale, an estimated $5,000,000 that was paid in 1967 for Leonardo's Ginevra dei Bend, by Washington's National Gallery of Art. The buyer of the Velásquez, Alec Wildenstein, 30, vice president of the New York firm of Wildenstein, firmly denied that he was acting on behalf of any art collector. Said he: "To buy this painting at that price is no risk. This...
Accident number three occurred on the Kansas Turnpike with Royce Shaw at the wheel. He and Colburn had decided to see who could drive the Hertz car farther in an hour, and Shaw looked like a sure winner until he couldn't handle a bend in the road and began to swerve back and forth. "That one seared me,'" Spengler recalls...
...Grams. The chance to bend Zumwalt's ear is no mere exercise in catharsis. Out of all the suggestions he has heard, he has so far circulated more than 800 as "greenstripers"-official green-bordered papers calling for reaction from selected commands. Of these, 65% have been turned into "Z-grams," which are direct orders from Zumwalt to effect changes in the service. Already famous throughout the fleet, they are aimed mainly at eliminating many seemingly minor, but unsettling, irritations of military life...
...become a "good boy." He refuses to hide his feelings about prison and those in authority from the eyes of the censor of his letters. He refuses to lie to his parents, to tell them that he believes in their white god, their subservience, that he will bend as they want to the overwhelming oppression of white society. The letters are grim, determined, their only humor an irony about failings. They are composed in a style that is all steel, spare, hard, the kind of style one imagines that comes from being always menaced, from knowing that...