Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bent, his withered left arm hanging loosely by his side, the fallen All Highest went on: "While ministers with olive branches in their hands are discussing peace, I see jealousy among the nations steadily increasing. New experiments are made with U-boats, torpedoes, ex- plosives and horrid gases, and secret discussions are carried on on the employment of poisonous gas on the oceans. Besides transocean flights, secret duration flights are made by planes heavily loaded with bombshells, so that one must consider the possibility of being at- tacked suddenly...
Elephant. When the same orchestra played outside the house of a twelve-year-old elephant named Poetre, she listened with polite and melancholy attention. As the wild oboes wailed, she bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone...
...level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...
Several long moments passed while Governor-General Timothy Michael Healy stared down at the corpse of his nephew. Then he bent down and kissed the forehead of Kevin O'Higgins. A moment later President William T. Cosgrave laid his right hand on the dead man's brow, standing for a moment in farewell contemplation...
...shadow, was the ghost of the reputation as a heavyweight fighter of Harry Wills, onetime Negro stevedore, now an affluent Negro bank depositor. The horizontal departure of Mr. Wills's shadow was effected by a grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again...