Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hair bound with ribbons, her fingers weighted with rings. But the finery hid terrible wounds. In 1925 a bus carrying Kahlo was struck by a trolley car. Rescuers found the 18-year-old girl impaled on an iron rod, her pelvis smashed, a foot mangled and her spine bent to nearly a right angle. Frida endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime. None of them stopped the degeneration of her bones. At times she lived in braces, surgical corsets and wheelchairs, paraphernalia she transformed on canvas with a macabre vibrancy...
...broad national consensus on defense, foreign policy and economic management. This time it was different. The 43.4 million voters were split as rarely before over a spectrum of choices for the country's future, ranging from newly activist radical forces advocating drastic change f to a conservative coalition bent on ref turning to some of the virtues of a bygone era. How to remedy a flagging economy with a record 2.54 million unemployed provoked sharply different ideological approaches. The defense issue was equally divisive. Torn over the consequences of either deploying or refusing to accept a new generation...
Last week, after a year in which the domestic makers lost $3.3 billion in their steelmaking operations, the industry's long-rising wage curve bent downward. The union and the major companies agreed to a new 41-month contract that temporarily cuts Steelworkers' pay by 9% - about $1.25 off the basic hourly wage. The pact gives up other things...
...bent to retrieve the lost bill. Then the two thieves loped easily away down the sidewalk. He stood and watched them go. They wore new jogging shoes and beautiful down jackets of the kind that after some argument, he had recently bought for his son. They were good-looking too. Clear-eyed, strong, giving off a kind of energy, like athletes. It seemed to him that for them the whole thing had been a sort of game. And there they went, jogging away in step, knees high, heads up, shoulder to shoulder like some Damon and Pythias of the inner...
...surface, it my seem that mid-Cambridge, long reputed for its liberal bent, is now witnessing a conservative backlash. Yet the philosophy behind the Square's current controversy is far from evangelical. For neighborhood groups, the liquor and video game battles are merely two skirmishes in a full-scale war for the preservation of the square...