Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Adolf Hitler, with the crushing kudos of sheer Might, may repress the hitherto irrepressible Winston Churchill. Now bent on figuring in the Story of Mankind as a kind, gentle figure, the Realmleader is currently being snapped by Nazi cameramen in poses which approximate those of the U. S. baby-kissing politician...
Near Sanford, N. C., Mrs. Alton Jourdon, 26, who expected to have a baby in another month, last week went to the well in her farmyard to draw water. "When I bent over the well," she said after an accident which drew newspaper attention throughout the nation, "everything went black. The next thing I remember was being in the cold water, trying to keep afloat. Soon there were two of us, and I had to keep...
...turned over and shivered. His mouth was like the top of a coal stove. The two men in white bent down over him, and their faces turned white. One told the other the Vagabond was dying. The Vagabond stiffened up and was glad...
...matter of fact, Robie happens to be one of Carr's problems; Jack doesn't know what to do with him. His natural bent appears of late to be that of fullback, but as Freshman he captained his team from the center halfback position, while he kicks, thinks, and is handy enough with his head to fit into the forward picture. Anyway, Robie was the star of Saturday's game, and he ought to be close to the starting lineup on Friday...
Most of them were newspaper career-men, highly competent, bent solely on getting the news, getting it right, getting it first. Also conspicuously on hand was an aggregation of what newspapermen call Trained Seals-cityroom slang for big-time correspondents who command huge salaries, get their names in headlines, seek color rather than fact...