Word: bente
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...races over to a corner and slumps onto the floor sitting against the wall with his head bent into his hands. After a moment, one hand becomes a pistol and he fires it at his temple. More than one person in the room flinches...
...orbit and to pluck them out of space and load them into the orbiter's big cargo bay when they require servicing or replacing. NASA's verdict on the extraterrestrial crane would have delighted any orbiting sidewalk superintendent: the six-jointed 50-ft.-long arm was extended, bent and manipulated with barely a hitch...
Since its inception in 1953, the Institute has worked closely with a Harvard teaching hospital, Peter Bent Brigham, which is now (along with Robert Breck Brigham Hospital and Boston Hospital for Women) the Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...delays. In the first flight an unexpectedly powerful shock wave from the initial blast of the shuttle's solid-fuel rockets caused the control flaps on the trailing edge of Columbia's delta wings to flutter so wildly that they approached the breaking point. The shock also bent and buckled several of the metal trusses linking Columbia to its big external fuel tank. To prevent a recurrence of this near disaster, engineers had to undertake a complete overhaul of the shock-suppression system, deluging the flame pits on the launch pad beneath Columbia's solid-fuel rockets...
...Jaruzelski appear bent on any radical departure from Kania's moderate policies, which he had publicly supported as Premier. Noted a U.S. State Department official: "Jaruzelski believes the same thing Kania believed, that you have to deal with Solidarity." Nonetheless, Jaruzelski's party comrades clearly expected him to show more resolve than his predecessor in restoring discipline to the party, the economy and the public at large...