Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peace Now movement and his book show a shrewd political sense. Oz has maneuvered into an untouchable position by constructing a platform whose legitimacy rests in the opportunity for constant criticism: he even encourages constructive potshots at his pluralist theory. Nevertheless, those of us with a skeptical bent might scoff at an idealistic vision. Oz says, "I would like very much to live in world where there are one hundred different civilizations with any cultural and religious traditions and not a single nation-state." No one can deny Oz the opportunity to hope for such a time and place...
...year before, the Harvard Band, bent on allowing the Elis as little sleep as possible, marched throught he streets of the City of Elms playing at full volume. The concert took place at 3 a.m. on the day of the Game, which apparently violated some city ordinance, landing the entire ensemble in the New Haven jail...
...drum major, Jennifer Roberts, attained her perch and promptly became the focus of a rain of snowballs. The Yalies, bent on protecting her, tore down screens from some of the dorms and protected her. They still think they won that...
Throughout the week, the site of those sacrifices was slowly, even tenderly, pulled apart in the search for bodies. As bulldozers grumbled back and forth, cranes hoisted away slabs of concrete, their steel rods bent crazily and stuck with bits of uniforms. The Marines were aided in their grim task not only by Navy Seabees from ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast, but by Italian, Norwegian and Lebanese rescuers, most of them volunteers. The searchers clambered over the ruins with picks and shovels, but just as often they would fall to their knees and scoop...
Across town, the same fevered search was going on at the French paratroopers' building. One dead officer was found bent over his bootlaces, as if he had been tying them. On Thursday evening, a memorial service was held at the French Ambassador's residence. Two rows of 28 coffins, each draped with the French Tricolor, were lined up in the courtyard. Under a glow cast by Jeep headlights, the military trumpets sounded as the French chaplain sprinkled each coffin with holy water. At the end, the remaining soldiers sang La Chanson du Para, a favorite paratrooper hymn, whose...