Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes serendipity plays a role in discovering a new approach to a familiar disease. Last summer a 42-year-old drug addict, unable to talk, bent over and hardly able to move, was brought to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. His symptoms were similiar to those of patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease, which usually affects the elderly. Dr. William Langston speculated that the cause might be something in the heroin that the victim used. The doctor and his team were able to track down others who had used the same batch of the drug and found similar reactions...
...Donald sees himself as the sort of bold citizen-adventurer these troubled times require. All he needs is some weaponry and a little training, and, as his new friend Sonny keeps trying to tell him, his head examined. This is particularly true since their lunch-counter assailant is bent on eliminating them as potential witnesses to his failed crime. He is, as it were, the dark side of the force that holds Donald in its grip, a small-time hood whose fantasy is that he is a big-time Mafia...
...Cerna showed off an espionage kit allegedly provided Moncada by the CIA (Sony short-wave radio, edible paper, hollow Mayan book ends containing codebooks), as well as photographs of her meeting with Rodriguez and a color videotape montage of various other rendezvous. (The Sandinistas displayed a funny show-biz bent: the video agitprop had a musical sound track appropriate for a spy movie...
...decide whether to risk negotiating with Israel and the U.S. The moment of opportunity passed, and with it the Reagan initiative. In time the Syrians and the P.L.O., backed by the Soviets, managed to scuttle King Hussein's efforts to join in the peace talks, and now seem bent on blocking the "pax Americana" in Lebanon as well. Due to the continued occupation, efforts to reconcile hostile factions within Lebanon have come to naught, and the country's internal stability is by no means assured. Some of the Lebanese militias, taking their cues from foreign mentors, have resumed...
North Korea reserves its special loathing, however, for the U.S. and South Korea. Americans are portrayed as demonic war criminals bent on enslaving the Korean people. Although U.S. analysts suspect that China is counseling Pyongyang against aggression, North Korea's tough and well-equipped armed forces (at 750,000 strong, the world's fifth largest) are highly visible and heavily indoctrinated. Among their articles of faith: South Korea longs to be "liberated," and the U.S. and South Korea are preparing to invade the North...