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Word: bending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cutthroat trout that make their homes in the mountain lakes and countless streams that crisscross Montana's million-acre Glacier National Park. River runners can launch themselves and their specially designed rubber boats down the foaming Colorado for a 277-mile run or trek into Texas' Big Bend National Park and try taking kayaks down the sinuous stretches of the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Bumper to Bumper In the Wilderness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Green could thus afford to bogey the 18th hole and still come away with the $45,000 prize for first place. His drive skipped through the bend in the fairway leading uphill to the 18th green and into the rough. He slapped his second shot into a steeply escaped bunker in front of the green and a semi-explosion shot left him 40 feet from the pin. Green bladed his second putt into the center of the cup to avoid a playoff and in so doing moved into the pantheon of golf's immortals...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Green Displays Classic Courage and Grace in Open Win | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...said Baugh, who must serve the one month and 22 days remaining in his military obligation. Meanwhile, his old company now allows members to wear wigs. Concedes Major General James Brooks, commander of the Idaho National Guard: "The volunteer force isn't going to make it unless we bend a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Last Draftee | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...Olga Schmulders, a Harvard graduate student, for the first time in his living room last Tuesday night. He said just a few words and then started a slow countdown. Her eyes closed and she was completely mesmorized. "Olga, you can't remember the number eight," or "You can't bend your left arm," he told her. It was obvious that, despite efforts to resist, the hypnotist had Schmulders acting exactly as he wished...

Author: By Marc H. Meyer, | Title: Hypnotism Without Watches | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...know how she takes on the personalities of these characters. I've never seen her rehearse to get them, or stand in front of a mirror experimenting. She just gets up and does them. It's a comedic possession, but maybe demonic possession is just around the bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

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