Word: bended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's fencing team placed second in the NCAA Northeast Regionals Saturday in South Bend, Ind., qualifying for next weekend's national championships for the first time in the squad's nine-year history...
...person, in other words, is indistinguishable from V.S. Naipaul; and the personality, the tone of voice and cast of mind displayed here resemble the prose of Naipaul's nonfiction (Among the Believers; India: A Wounded Civilization) more closely than that of his other nine novels, including Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. Whether The Enigma of Arrival is literally true or an invention does not particularly matter. But readers who expect a work of pure narrative are in for a surprise...
...Championship victory qualifies the Crimson (9-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy) for NCAA regionals next weekend at Notre Dame in South Bend...
...some, reason, this always causes me to reflexively bend down and move my shoulders next to my ears as I pass in front of their cameras, as if I can some how render myself invisible by assuming bad posture. I wind up being photographed as a hunchback with a disgustingly pained expression on my face, and they wind up with photos that will surely be used at a later date for black mail purposes...
...heart of the military complaints is a sense that Aquino will bend more easily to meet the needs of the Communist guerrillas than she will to maintain the loyalty of her troops. It is now common to hear soldiers gripe that the Communist insurgents have got a "free ride" in the media since the cease-fire began last December. Another standard beef: guerrillas are not held accountable for human-rights abuses, but soldiers are. Asks one soldier: "If Aquino can be soft on the ((Communist)) rebels and offer them amnesty, why can't she treat the rebel soldiers...