Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommy Holmes, who is the National League's fancy .402 batting leader, this year's edition offers some promising rookies and a brand-new home-run aptitude (thanks, partly, to a shortened right-field fence). The Braves also have a new boss, Contractor Louis Perini, who seems bent on buying new talent...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, 36, plump, pleasure-bent potentate who rules 3,000,000 Indians, stirred up a tempest in Bombay teapots when he got top air priority to fly to England with his aide-de-camp for "health reasons." Scores of long-service British officers, waiting wearily for passage, on the crowded homeward bound planes, knew that the Gaekwar was going to England to race his stable, that his "aide-de-camp" was his champion jockey...
...Japanese openly wince under the lash of the 6-293. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The enemy seems bent on using them to destroy utterly the Yamato race in a manner far greater in fury than any bombings our Axis partners in Europe experienced...
...when the invitation is over and the waltz begins. Suddenly from the left wings of the stage bounded a dark-haired, barefoot girl in black jersey shirt and slacks-in perfect time she lightly leaped across the stage, past the harpists, past the second violinists, behind the bent back of Maestro Toscanini, in front of the first violinists...
...white opium poppies burst into bloom last week in the barren mountains of Northwest Mexico, setting the stage for melodrama. Troops rode through the hidden valleys, determined to stop the opium harvest. But the contraband harvesters, brown farmers and shepherds, bent on sharing the highest dope prices in history from over the border, eluded the soldiers...