Word: bente
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...housed more grotesques than a whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute, baroque retellings of native legends and a riot of inventiveness. Donoso was inevitably mentioned in the same breath with Borges and Marquez as yet another prophetic surrealist bent on reimagining his colorful, tragic continent...
...midnight approached on January 17 this year, thousands of Massachusetts citizens jammed 12 temporary tax centers from Boston to Pittsfield to settle accounts with their consciences and with a vigorous new state revenue department bent on curing what Revenue Commissioner Ira A. Jackson '70 describes as "bad tax habits" in the commonwealth...
...instead, the President seems bent on allowing this act of fate to drag relations with the Soviets not forward, but back to the starting gate. And fate promises to relieve the Administration of the necessity of proving conciliatory in the election year to come, to muffle the bad press resulting from having presided over the worst level of Soviet-American relations in recent history Circumstance has offered the Administration a convenient way out which they seem inclined to follow, even at the risk of losing a rare chance to open a better route...
...Code scooped the puck out from the corner to Tony Visone at the point Visone's cannoblast was headed wide of the net The puck caromed off Tim Barakett in the slot and bent back inside the post...
...morass of promises and, as he appeared in a recent cartoon, seems deliriously wrapped up in the dance of making them. He seems neither a man with a vision nor a man with clearly delineated ideas, but some of his colleagues are. Not Mr. Glenn, indeed, who seems bent on arguing with the former vice-president about past records, but the other six. Many joke that these contenders are fighting for the pointless position of second place, but that position is anything but pointless in a primary. Coming in first is only important on election day; before that date...