Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Objectivity in the Nepalese press is a matter of degree. Nearly every newspaper inevitably develops a political bent in response to the interest group that most heavily funds it. The Rising Nepal and Motherland are accepted as organs of the government, while Kathmandu abounds as well with papers professing pro-Soviet, -Indian and -Chinese ideologies...
...said a nun who attended the service. The archbishop fell to the floor, his blood streaking the white altar cloth. He was mortally wounded, struck in the heart by a single fragmenting .22-cal. bullet. The gunman ran to a small red car and sped away. A nun who bent over to kiss the dying prelate heard him whisper, "May God have mercy on the assassins...
...Specialized Center of Research on Ischemic Heart Disease, located in the Massachusetts General (MGH) and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals, studies heart disease caused by narrowing of the arteries that provide blood to the heart, Dr. W. Gerald Austen, Churchill Professor of Medicine and co-principal investigator, said yesterday...
...hand, one can be sure what the sculptor Martin Puryear is about with a subtly irregular circle of dark bent wood, some four feet in diameter, a minimal serpent with a knob for a head: this hand some and assured object is like a blowup of a tribal bracelet, but with more sculptural presence. On the other, one of the best pieces in the show is Alvin Loving's wall hanging of sewed, dyed canvas, Shades of '73: Composition for 1980, whose variegated strips are like a moody, floral version of a constructivist motif and seem to make...
Police said the man's modus operandi was to sit next to a coed and drop things on the floor every few minutes. Each time he bent down to pick up an object he would paint another toenail...