Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once again WLB used a convenient loophole in the formula which allows it to correct "inequities." But it turned down demands for a guaranteed annual wage and a 17?-an-hour raise over the Little Steel formula. WLBoss William H. Davis proudly announced that the decision neither broke nor bent the Administration's prize line-holding device...
China's Puzzles. And there was the further complication of Washington's peripatetic global emissaries whose powers, purposes and accreditation were often more baffling than any Chinese puzzle. There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an eager ear to gossip of Chungking's and Chiang's political instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick...
Nothing south of the Philippines would do for the attack: Lieut. General Kenney's airmen based on Morotai had closed those routes. There were only two channels through the Philippines. The Japs bent their strategy to geographic necessity...
...Nazi commander at Riga, a colonel general named Schemer, seemed bent on holding it all winter, ice or no ice. The town was girdled by a 25-mile belt of ferroconcrete pillboxes, tank traps and barbed wire. According to Soviet reporters, Schemer executed German troops who showed signs of wavering; eleven soldiers found skulking in a movie house were shot in the streets. Izvestia made the statement that 800 German tanks were hurled into the defense of Riga, that 500 of them were knocked out by Red fire...
...soldiers on carts were mostly sleeping where they lay, even the drivers. Girl telegraphists, telephonists and mechanics -about one to every 15 men-moved with the army. Troops on foot walked with heads bent, scarcely lifting their feet until they entered a town or village. Then, with a visible effort, they straightened up and marched through in good order. Their uniforms were patched and faded, their faces dirty and whisker-stubbled, their eyes weary, but their arms were shining clean...