Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bent overplays Hochepaix, greatly underestimating the audience's ability to understand far from subtle shades of meaning. It is enough to be told that Hochepaix waged a campaign against Ventroux in which he called Ventroux names such as "traitor," "rotten egg," "stool pigeon," and "decaying garbage." Bent's winking and gesturing to the audience whenever he says something sarcastic is a bit extraneous...
...proposal represents a dramatic about-face in Administration policy. For the past few months, Washington has attempted--with often counter-productive results--to paint the Sandinistas as Soviet lackeys bent on exporting Communism to the rest of Central America...
...another discussion we asked our instructor why so many women continue to work past the retirement age of 55. Some of these women, visibly eligible to receive their pensions, shovel snow from the steps of public parks, others, bent over because the handles on their brooms are only half a meter long, sweep metro floors after shut-down at 1 a.m. Our instructor said that these women simply love their work. While this explanation may very well be true, a more complete answer might have also noted that in some cases pensions are so low that the elderly need...
...Recognize Sunday's El Salvadoran national elections for what they are: a facade of legitimacy for a government whose future is in the hands of a right-wing army bent on eliminating its opposition at any cost...
...February of 1973, two members of Harvard's then nationally ranked soccer team quit Not just the squad, but college. Two of the most talented of the Crimson's mind boggling lineup of international talent. Dragan Vujovic of Yugoslavia and Norwegian Bent Hinze, were not only worried that a Harvard education might have little practical use when they returned home, but also had decided they had seen enough of American college athletics...