Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ADMINISTRATION and Senate, during this week of miswords and misdeeds, had already caused damage to the American international reputation. Perhaps more important, the politicians in Washington, by displaying scorn for the United Nations, gave way to, and fostered, the isolationist bent that lies just below the surface of many Americans' views and all American foreign policy. This reluctance to assume a leading role in world diplomacy, a role that should have been natural for a major power, contributed to the deterioration of international relations preceding World Wars I and II. Immediately after World War II, the U.N. Preparatory Commission concluded...
...South Africa. Whenever an anti-American issue comes along, jump on the bandwagon. In the Falklands, trumpet principled support for the just anti-colonial cause of the Argentinean and Latin American peoples against the British accomplices of U.S. imperialism. Never mind that the Argentine junta were recently "fascists" bent on disappearing every communist and leftist they could catch...
Conway attributed the delay to problems with four conduits, which had been bent out of shape, preventing the placement of telephone wires. Conduits are hollow pipes through which the wiring...
Catliff continued his team-leading scoring pace by rocketing a skimming left-footer that bent around the Big Green wall and off the left post past unsighted Dartmouth goalkeeper Jim Cisneros...
Motherwell never dissembled about his sources. Not only was a sign for the human body like Figure in Black, 1947, with its mask's eyes staring from the bent trapezoid of a head, clearly derived from Picasso, but Motherwell would also write more knowledgeably about Picasso than most of his contemporaries, critics included. If the rectangular opening that kept appearing, as a promise of space beyond the picture plane, in painting after painting from the early '40s to the Open series of the late '60s and early '70s derived its authority from Matisse's Blue...