Word: bente
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...like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual: the bent-over Endore circles round and round the enemy corpse in a silent, semihysterical Indian war dance...
...tremor of their rigid, half-clenched hands, or could not walk except in jerky petits pas. There were children suffering from nerve disorders similar to Parkinsonism. During an attack, a pretty girl of eleven was doubled up, her whole body distorted and shaking. A boy the same age was bent backwards; eventually, said Dr. Cooper, his back and legs might arch until his head touched his heels...
...Andrews-a Merman-Martin act, complete with audience applause to greet every familiar tune-Carol's mugging saved the cliches from being too cloying. While Julie sang dramatically: "You've been in love, or so you said, you should know better . . .", Carol, suddenly smitten with guilt, put bent fingers in mouth and averted her head in a hilarious oh-God-you're-so-right gesture...
...Knowles also had some injuries to his left hand. The surgeons encased the boy's trunk and right arm in a cast that held the arm in a bent position, as though to ward off a blow. Still anesthetized, the boy was wheeled to a second operating theater. There, surgeons straightened out his battered left hand and sewed up its skin wounds. Ev Knowles received four more pints of blood during the multiple operations, which lasted eight hours...
...bitter Senate debate over the censure of Republican Joe McCarthy came up. At one point, when Senators seemed about to come to blows, Ervin arose. He told a typical tale about Uncle Ephraim. The poor old fellow had been tortured for years by arthritis. He was bent double as he sat in church one Sunday. The mountain preacher asked various members of the congregation what the Lord had done for them. All replied, in self-satisfying detail. Then the preacher pointed to Uncle Eph and demanded an answer. Croaked Uncle Eph: "Brother, he has mighty nigh ruint me." Concluded Senator...