Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Follow the bent of your own mind-do not paint to order," wrote Mount in one of his notebooks. In his comfortable village, surrounded by well-off relatives with whom he lived, he could well afford to follow his bent. He was an accomplished fiddler and he was also fond of conviviality ("I must visit the ladies more frequently-go to apple peelings and quiltings"). Hangovers occasionally interrupted his work...
There was evidence that the top Japanese command was bent upon prolonging the war at any cost. Their dispositions on Luzon fitted such an intention: of an estimated nine divisions on the island, three were reported in the extreme south, three in the extreme north, and the balance in central reserve near Manila. This was a disposition designed to permit maximum resistance wherever General MacArthur might land-and obviously with no plan of evacuation in mind...
Pouf! In Charlotte, N.C., a husky fireman, responding to a three-alarm blaze, found smoke pouring from a parked truck in midtown, raised the hood, saw flames around the carburetor, bent over, blew out the blaze...
...SEChairman (1941-42), Judge Eicher had done his amiable best with a clumsy Justice Department mass indictment which accused 30 defendants of conspiring to Nazify the U.S. For more than seven .months he had banged a tireless, ineffectual gavel at a score of jack-in-the-box defense lawyers bent on turning his courtroom into a vaudeville stage...
...lamp with an exposure of less than one-millionth of a second. The light, flashed through a region of disturbed air, recorded on a photographic plate a "shadowgraph" showing groups of bunched air molecules. Using a more elaborate rig, which has a knife-edge that stops all but the bent light rays, the experimenters developed a technique so sensitive that it can photograph the heat rising from a human hand at room temperature...