Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more reporters entered the prison, more hostages were freed. When the last two guards walked out at 1:26 p.m. on Sunday, the policemen and National Guardsmen retook the prison without firing a shot. An hour later, Governor Bruce King announced that the riot was over and bent down to kiss an elderly Hispanic woman, one of the hundreds of inmates' relatives who had stood outside the fence all night. Her face turned stony. "What happened to our men?" she demanded...
John J. Collins, professor of surgery at Peter Bent Brigham, a Harvard teaching hospital, said yesterday the problem stems from the tremendous amount of time heart transplant patients must remain hospitalized. Since hearts, unlike kidneys, may only be taken from donors who are irreversibly ill or who have died recently, patients requiring such operations must sometimes wait weeks...
...steel and blue glass of the Zion Baptist Church shines out from the grey of North Philadelphia. Its beige brick walls lighten the burned out buildings nearby, and a steel cross towers over bent and broken street lights. Zion attracts one of the largest congregations in the area, a district infamous for its high crime, poor housing and racial problems...
Richard Gere is a remarkable actor. He proved so in Days of Heaven and he is now lugging rocks to raves in Bent on Broadway. But his gigolo moves in low gear, too serious if Schrader's attempt was satire, too absurd if the attempt was straight-faced. Michelle's Senator-husband summed it up perfectly: "I know a whore when...
...National Security Adviser, tried and got the treatment. Sally Quinn's three-part series in the Washington Post damaged Brzezinski in passing, but it damaged the Post even more. The Post is one of the nation's best papers, though nowadays it often seems excessively bent on topping its Watergate success...