Word: bended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bartlett case is just one more boost to the great American tradition of fudging. If at first you don't succeed, try to bend the rules. If you fail to meet a standard, either of morality or competency, there's always room to maneuver...
...MOTHER THE SLAVE, MY BROTHER THE SKINHEAD How did Tolstoy put it? All happy families are on TV; all unhappy families are in movies. In autumn movies, anyway. Here's a six-pack of serioso films that bend the laws of relativity...
...SLOSH analysis of New York City revealed that the sharp bend in the Atlantic coastline where New York and New Jersey meet, the New York Bight, would amplify the effects of a storm surge to the point where even a modest hurricane could generate deadly flooding in lower Manhattan. "That right angle, believe it or not, can cause 30 ft. of storm surge above normal tide conditions," says Donald Lewis, a hurricane-evacuation expert based in Miami who worked on the New York City study. "The same storm in other parts of the country might cause only...
...state game wardens could kill a mountain lion that stalked three hikers in recent days. At one point, the lion even swiped at one of them, but it missed. And it gets scarier than that. In May, Mary Jane Cooder was taking pictures during a walk in Big Bend National Park in Texas when she saw through the viewfinder that her eight-year-old was upset. "I turned around and saw there was a big mountain lion getting ready to pounce," she said. Cooder drew her three girls behind her and pulled a pocketknife from her backpack. She waved...
...system...who really wants to see the President hurt," said Senator Orrin Hatch, who could inflict some of that hurt. "[If] he does come forth and say, 'I made a mistake...'[to] protect his wife and daughter...and then ask for...some sort of consideration, I think we would bend over backward to try and give him that consideration...