Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Days after the slaughter, the scene remained so ghastly that the eye instinctively sought out relics of life among the debris. Here was a dog tag bent out of shape by the blast, there a shred of a letter or birthday card from home. Scattered everywhere were photographs: of uniformed sons between doting parents, of laughing girlfriends and smiling wives, of babies newly born. The personal effects made the rows of bodies laid out on the ground and covered with blankets even more poignant, for they were reminders that each Marine pulled out of the rubble had his own private...
...uninitiated, rugby is a mad game relegated to the rough and tumble who muck about for hours, and then celebrate by balancing mugs of beer on their heads, and of course on their longues. Even loyalists, bent on preserving tradition--the chants, Pig Roasts, and leaving teammates behind on road trips--do not shrink from the tale that rugby started with marauding Britons who played a mean keep-away with the heads of slaughtered Druids...
Behold, what fullback through yonder defense breaks? It is Steve Ernst, and Harvard is the sun. Yet, see, the Crimson doth itself appear, as doth the blushing discontented sun from out the fiery portal of the Ivy League, when it perceives the envious Crusaders are bent to dim its glory and to stain the record of its bright passage through the 1983 schedule...
They were young enough then that their heads smelled sweet when she bent to kiss them. She hadn't noticed when the sweetness disappeared: one day it was simply gone...
Sometimes she stood the way poor people stand, elbow bent, one hand placed on one irregular hip, and the face gazing past the immediate farmyard, as if to say "There is life beyond this paltry place--I have my eyes...