Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the afternoon of Sabbath eve two British minesweepers spotted their quarry entering Palestine's territorial waters near Haifa. She was a battered, 750-ton freighter jampacked with 1,350 Jewish refugees from Europe bent on entering the Holy Land. She had had a long, hard voyage-30 days from Goteborg, Sweden, which she had cleared as a Greek ship (the Ulua), bound for South America. Now she flew the blue-and-white Zionist flag and her bridge carried a freshly painted name: Chaim Arlosoroff (in honor of a murdered Palestine labor leader...
...legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little wooden platform to wheel himself around, bought a shoeshine box, and went to the patio of the National Palace to earn his living. He remained silent and bitter as he bent his head over the shoes of ministers, generals, Supreme Court justices. But one day President Alvaro Obregon slapped him on the back, called him Chaparro (Shorty) and invited him to his office to shine his shoes. Genaro came out with shining eyes-he was the President's bootblack...
...fled into Rangoon's famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps. Not until much later did the police learn that the blind Buddhist nun was Communist Thakin...
...grizzled Negro, was wheeled in on a mobile bed. Paralyzed by a stroke, he had not touched foot out of bed for a year and a half. He lay with both legs stiffly bent...
...Hannes Schneider's Arlberg technique of controlled skiing (by which skiers learn to put on the brakes) which did most to tell U.S. beginners how to ski. Its basis, as with all controlled skiing, is the fundamental snow-plow (knees bent, body tilted forward, ski tips pointed inward like an inverted V). In about five weeks, the average student can learn to ride downhill without wrapping himself around a tree...