Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that process that Shultz and Gromyko have initiated a new round of talks. But achieving an agreement will be especially hard now that the U.S. has reopened the issue of strategic defenses. The Soviets are all the less likely to cut back their offensive forces if the U.S. is bent on trying to render "impotent and obsolete" the ones they are allowed to keep...
...years of San Jose State, although he received a small sports grant for playing water polo. He tried out for the Olympic squad in 1956 but did not make it. (He did break his nose five times over the years playing water polo, and today it is still badly bent.) At San Jose, Ueberroth spent 15 hours a week in the classroom and 40 hours at odd jobs; selling women's shoes, working on a chicken farm...
...factory, dead bodies were still on the ground, being picked up and loaded aboard a waiting truck. Everywhere one turned, people were retching, bent over horribly, racked by violent coughing that brought a red froth to their lips...
Once again, it seemed, the world was held hostage by a small and fanatic band of terrorists bent on wresting political concessions by menacing innocents. The four or five Arab-speaking gunmen who commandeered Kuwait Airways Flight 221 to Karachi, Pakistan, last Tuesday were believed to be linked to the Hizballah (Party of God). This is the same pro-Khomeini Shi'ite group, based in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, that some U.S. officials think may have been responsible for killing more than 300 people in last year's bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks...
...surprise hit, Chuck E.'s in Love, from her debut album back in 1979. She sounded like a saloon singer with Listerine in her shot glass and wrote songs that came off like juke joint Kerouac. This is only her third full album, and she seems bent on proving, quite unnecessarily, what she has already established: she is the most enterprising woman writer making records today. The Magazine, a spiraling cycle of songs organized around themes of loneliness, defiance, memory and renewal, seems as if it was long and hard in coming. Lustrous lines ("If there are three girls...