Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cicero is an unlikely hero, Segal says, because for most of his life, he was the quintessential politician. "He was a Lyndon Johnson type. He was very successful, and basically bent with the wind. He was never a moral leader," says the writer. "Cicero was a major figure in contributing to the world of great power, great money and great corruption, but at the end of his life, he fought against this corruption. It was heroic, because he didn't have to do it. He could have just led a rich, quiet and safe life in retirement...
...determined band of legislators was bent on getting an immigration bill passed despite the rapidly approaching Nov. 4 elections and the rush to adjournment. These lawmakers led conference talks which produced a compromise version of the bill...
Some downtown buildings were reduced to bent and twisted steel, and officials warned other building in this city of 500,000 people might collapse later...
...veteran Harvard physician first came toHarvard in 1953 as a doctor-in-training at theHarvard affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Hewas appointed to his present post in 1971 bythen-President Nathan M. Pusey with Bok'sapproval
port's main story, concurs: "There has been so much written about drugs recently that we thought it was time to step back and take a longer view. In 1900 people were bent out of shape over Coca-Cola because it contained cocaine. At the same time there is a serious problem here, and, the hype notwithstanding, we really are in the midst of a national crisis...