Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defiant speeches drew a crowd of thousands, and patient Czech police, without truncheons or revolvers, began slowly and persuasively to edge the excited students down toward the river. Some students who refused to be herded broke from the rest, dashed into old Palace Square. Since they seemed bent on nothing more than singing Czech and Slovak national anthems, the unarmed Czech police were all for letting them alone, but German civilians with drawn revolvers suddenly appeared and drove the police to drive the students back to their university...
Robert N. White '41, reliable distance swimmer on Coach Hal Ulon's tank squad, was stricken with appendicitis and operated on last Monday. He is recovering in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and is expected to be ready for intercollegiate competition after Christmas...
...loft. But subtic and dangerous as his message may be, Boyer will be severely handicapped. Subtic and dangerous is the message that will be spread around the women's clubs of America. Before the French have won their first battle, Boyer will have organized a powerful lobby of women bent on sending their sons and sweethearts into European trenches...
...more frivolous. With no blackouts, no curfews, no ration cards to worry about, Bucharest's 900,000 sophisticated, easygoing, sensuous citizens are at last earning the title which the city long ago assumed but never quite deserved-"Paris of the East." The Nippon bar, hangout of lonely, pleasure-bent males, and the Colorado, more elegant and respectable cabaret, keep open nightly until 5:30 a.m. On the less naughty side of Bucharest serious politicians relax at famed Café Capsa. The big, swanky outdoor terrace of the Cercul Militar (Army Club), facing the Calea Victoriei, is filled nightly with...
Another reported Buchenwald flogging system: "Fixed on the ground were two footplates to which a man's feet were strapped. He was then bent over a pole and his head was secured between two horizontal bars. The men received up to fifty strokes. . . . Some went mad. They were then chained up and a sack was tied around their heads to stifle their shouts...