Word: bended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union's emigration laws are among the tightest in the world, but authorities will readily bend the rules when it suits them. Last week they did just that to rid themselves of a nemesis who had attracted worldwide attention: Psychiatrist Anatoli Koryagin, who was sentenced to seven years in labor camps after protesting the practice of locking up political dissidents in mental hospitals and often dosing them with mind-altering drugs...
...Bend of the River--Harvard Film Archive...
Across the aisle of the bus, two cast members struggle to recall whether they had their last schnapps party in West Lafayette or East Lansing. It was definitely butterscotch schnapps. -- Could it have been South Bend? A night in Omaha (or was it Iowa City?) remains memorable for klieg lights and a good soda machine. The bus driver, meanwhile, wonders whether it was in Madison or Des Moines that he last had his vehicle washed...
...Aristotelian balance. There was a beginning, in the late 1940s, when the white minority government instituted apartheid, a crazy quilt of laws designed to restrict, presumably forever, the freedoms and aspirations of a black majority. The middle, the escalating restiveness and violence provoked by a system too rigid to bend, is now. And surely an end, whether it be awful or awesome, must come. Unlike such interminably troubled spots as Northern Ireland or the Middle East, South Africa generates each day one of the oldest questions to capture human attention: What will happen next...
Harvard men's fencer Jim O'Neill captured the individual epee fencing championship last week at the NCAA championships held in South Bend...