Word: bends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jumbo jets. What Lloyd's needs most is rich new members to cover its risks; its scouts are out scouring the golf courses and grouse shoots to get them. This year the governing committee accepted the first 16 underwriters from outside the Commonwealth. Next year the "governors" will bend tradition even more. For the first time in its 282-year history, Lloyd's will admit women-a recognition of the fact of financial life that much of the world's capital is controlled by women...
...they can take the case to the Court of Military Appeals and then try to shift it to the federal courts. The Army, which likes to prosecute its law violators in private, is not likely to appreciate all the notoriety. The savvy lawyers on the defense team could easily bend the system to turn the accused into heroes...
There is little if any hope that euphemisms will ever be excised from mankind's endless struggle with words that, as T. S. Eliot lamented, bend, break and crack under pressure. For one thing, certain kinds of everyday euphemisms have proved their psychological necessity. The uncertain morale of an awkward teen-ager may be momentarily buoyed if he thinks of himself as being afflicted by facial "blemishes" rather than "pimples." The label "For motion discomfort" that airlines place on paper containers undoubtedly helps the squeamish passenger keep control of his stomach in bumpy weather better than if they were...
...undermine law enforcement and to bend regulations, purchasing procedures and legislation to a shape pleasing...
...first round in this esthetic debate belongs rightfully to Jacques-Louis David, whose painting is displayed in the exhibition alongside that of five of his pupils. An active revolutionary who later wielded tremendous power as official painter to Napoleon, a classicist able to bend Greco-Roman ideals to the service of French patriotism, David embodied the contradictions of the century. More important, his gruesomely vivid portrait of the assassinated revolutionist Jean-Paul Marat dying in a bathtub established him as the first artist to make painting relevant to real and immediate events destined for history. "The father of the entire...