Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were promoting German good will toward Russia. At the Karlshorst conference, the German delegates got Zhukov's word that by year's end removals of industrial equipment would cease. Declared the Marshal: "Stalin has said we did not intend to destroy the German people. . . . We are now bent on aiding [Germans] in reconstruction...
...with all its troubles Shanghai still has the optimism of the gambler who knows he is going to fill his flush and take the pot. One U.S. businessman bent my ear for half an hour with his troubles: lack of cooperation from the State Department, the Chinese "squeeze," Chinese undependability, etc. Then I asked him if the city had any future at all. He leaned over, gripped my shoulder and half whispered: "My boy, Shanghai is due for the biggest boom in history...
...Ottawa's cavernous Union Station, where he arrived with Canada's own homecoming Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Clem Attlee shook the hands of nearly 100 welcome-bent dignitaries while bagpipes tootled Cock o' the North. Then he strode down a red carpet into three hectic days...
...General Hawley announced that the Veterans' Administration-for the first time in history-plans to spend $1,000,000 a year for prosthetic research. ¶ Walter Bura, a 31-year-old civilian amputee with a bent for engineering, was appointed chief of the VA Division of Prosthetic Devices with the job of speeding new inventions to the wearable stage. Bura, who walks so well himself that no one realizes his leg is off above the knee, is credited with having "revolutionized" the Army's methods of teaching amputees to walk...
...atomic armaments race begun? In Moscow a writer for The New Times declared that reactionary forces in the U.S. were bent on "blackmailing humanity" by trying to keep the atomic bomb a U.S. property...