Word: bent
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DIED. Igor Gouzenko, 63, cipher expert in the Soviet Union's Ottawa embassy whose defection in 1945 defused a major North American Soviet spy ring bent on extracting Western atomic bomb secrets; of a heart attack; in Mississauga, Ont. The information that Gouzenko brought with him exposed for the first time the extent of the Soviet intelligence web in the U.S. and Canada. Hypersensitive to personal danger, Gouzenko thereafter never appeared in public without disguising himself or covering his head with...
...worldly success is that its recipient, Father Andrew M. (for Moran) Greeley, 54, is a Roman Catholic priest. It is not so much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that his novels...
...Congressman Don Edwards, a California Democrat, is leading a bipartisan drive to obtain 200 cosponsors. Senator Paul Tsongas, a Massachusetts Democrat, claims to have 41 co-sponsors in the Senate. But, say supporters, even should the amendment pass Congress-and that is a big if, given the current conservative bent of the Senate in particular-it will be at least an estimated ten to 15 years before the ERA becomes part of the Constitution...
Just the night before the Pope landed, while his jet was already well into its 16-hour flight from Rome to Argentina, crowds were still celebrating Malvinas Day. But the mood was already shifting from fatherland to Holy Father: a bent old lady fingered her Rosary at Our Lady of Mercy Church in the downtown district of Retire, praying both for the safety of her grandson in Port Stanley and for the Pontiffs safe arrival...
...Judy Kensley McKie's glass-topped tables supported by attenuated, Giacometti-like mahogany dogs. McKie, 38, of Cambridgeport, Mass., sold one of her $3,600 doggy tables to Joan Mondale for the vice-presidential mansion in Washington, B.C. Alan Siegel, 43, of Lake Hill, N.Y., recently exhibited a bent poplar chair that looks, he suggests, like "a smiling bandit." Other well-known "fun" pieces include a table by Wendell Castle, 50, of Scottsville, N.Y., with a carved wood hat and briefcase...