Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese were bent on butchery. They were not to be content until they had slaughtered every soldier or official they could lay hands on. . . . One Japanese soldier stood over the growing pile of corpses with a rifle pouring bullets into any of the bodies which showed movement...
...EARS ARE BENT-Joseph Mitchell -Sheridan House...
...walls. The boys, about six of them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent onto the bumper of a heavy dump truck...
Taking up where he left off with Mr. Willkie two months earlier, the President ran through the memorandum point by point, challenging Powerman Willkie at almost every step. Head bent over the paper, on his desk, he was asked to raise his voice. Finally he hit the Willkie request for modification of the holding company "death sentence." That, said the President, was the heart...
...bent on breaking this one-track monopoly was the Hollywood Turf Club, a syndicate originally formed in 1935 but more recently reorganized and capitalized at $2,250,000. Headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, sporty production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Corporation, and a board of directors of impeccable backgrounds, the reorganized Hollywood Turf Club convinced the Racing Board of its financial and moral soundness, got permission to build a race track in Los Angeles County. But the Board shyly held up its allocation of racing dates. At long last, last week, the Racing Board granted...