Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from actually rowing it. So do Lloyd and Pat Kennedy. That is why the retired Air Force colonel and his wife have driven from their home in Harrison, Ark., to the tiny (pop. 550) coastal community of Brooklin, Me. And that is why a sunny summer morning finds them bent together over a building frame, beveling the planks on what will, in another day or two, be an 8-ft.-long dinghy, capable of carrying them for a sail on the waters of nearby Eggemoggin Reach or, later, the lake near their Ozarks home. "I've spent a good...
Although his ideological bent is virtually unchanged since 1980, Reagan has accommodated himself to the political exigencies of governing. He adheres to the terms of the unratified SALT II nuclear arms treaty that he condemned as a candidate four years ago. Lately he has offered to meet with the Soviets. He has not abolished the Departments of Energy and Education, as promised. In all, the Democrats will find it harder to portray Reagan as a radical. Indeed, the G.O.P. platform, its language on taxes and classroom prayer sessions toughened up last week by the party's dominant right wing, puts...
...photographers' barricade from his seat in the stands and showed her a piece of paper on which the arithmetic had been done: score a 9.95 to tie Szabo for the gold, score a 10 to stand alone as all-around champion. Anything less would mean the silver. He bent down to hold and shake her shoulders; she nodded intensely...
...curse bequeathed to Mexico City by the Aztecs was the curse of human sacrifice. That ritual, in which a priest bent over the recumbent victim and cut out his throbbing heart with an obsidian knife, was central to the Aztecs' religion. The war god Huitzilopochtli required blood as the price of Aztec victory and the rain god Tlaloc required it as the price of the harvest; if these gods remained unpropitiated, the world would end. Exactly how many victims were thus sacrificed (and later eaten) remains uncertain, but it is believed that 20,000 prisoners were offered...
...positive, Soviet officials reacted with icy disbelief. Howe called the White House to verify that no preconditions were being laid down. Even that did not help. During an official lunch for Howe, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko delivered a harsh blast at the U.S., declaring that Washington was bent on "intensifying the arms race and spreading it to outer space." Howe remarked to reporters that people might well conclude that "the Soviet leaders are even unwilling to take yes for an answer...