Word: bended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a bad haircut." It's Stern, surely, who used to do an on-air stunt with vacuum- cleaner sound effects dubbed "caller abortions," who chatted with a female caller about giving him "a throat massage" with her tongue, whose current newsletter article on health-care reform is headlined BEND OVER, AMERICA, and who just last week on the radio delivered a parody ad for mail- order bricks from L.A. to be used as rioters' weapons, talked about a "drunk penis" and the "scumbags" who get newspaper coverage, and said, "Damn! Damn! Hell! Hell!" Pure Stern...
...passion for domestic affairs. In even the most arcane of those areas, Clinton's expertise is astonishing, and he long ago articulated his formula for success: "You do your homework, you chart clear goals, you make sure all the parts mesh, and then, even though you have to bend some to get stuff passed, you stick by the key pieces of your plan till you accomplish your goals." But consistency and constancy, the critical prerequisites to the successful pursuit of any policy, are missing abroad. Why? It may be that Clinton's foreign and defense policy team is second-rate...
...underlining, a lot of chicken-scratching, and a lot of swiveling. The proctors checked our identification several times throughout the four-and-a-little hours we spent in the slightly chilly room. I filled in at least 125 bubbles--completely, leaving no stray marks. I didn't bend, fold, spindle or mutilate the answer sheet. Then I gave my paper away, knowing that soon enough I would be converted to yet another number...
Still, they were worth looking for, if only to prove they weren't there, and Princeton astronomer Bohdan Paczynski had proposed an ingenious way to conduct the search. Albert Einstein showed in his general theory of relativity that the gravity from a star will bend rays of light that pass nearby. In principle, he said, a star could act as a lens, focusing and brightening the light of another star directly behind it. If a cloud of small stars or big planets really is orbiting the Milky Way, some of them should occasionally pass in front of stars...
...Rodriguez and Evelyn Rivera moved in May from Bend, Oregon, to the lesbian mecca of Northampton, Massachusetts, so they could stop posing as sisters to placate landlords, employers (both are waitresses) and neighbors while bringing up Rivera's son Mark, 13, by a prior marriage, and her nephew Salvatore, 11. "The sister act is over," says Rodriguez. "You have to be honest with kids to produce honest citizens...