Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were signs that Chiang had bent a shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what...
Most of our cover backgrounds are completely thought through in advance in conferences between the artist and TIME'S editors. But Artzybasheffs startling imagination works best when he is bent over his drawing-board all alone-and the rough sketch he brings in for a final okay is often worlds away from anything TIME'S editor thought of at the start...
...outcry . . . almost none came from the uninterested public. . . . They sat jaded and silent. Perhaps they had witnessed too many invocations of the Bill of Rights to justify low wages for newspaper workers. Perhaps they had seen too many abuses of power by newspapers bent on spreading the ideas of an owner group. Or perhaps-and here is the ominous possibility-they had begun to regard the newspapers no longer as trustees of constitutional liberty, but as the beneficiaries of a special privilege tending to be concentrated in fewer and fewer hands...
...night, our thoughts are bent on one sole purpose: how we may be able to meet this bitter trial, helping all without distinction of nationality or race, and how we may help toward restoring peace at last to tortured mankind...
Thanks and congratulations for that terrifically inspiring, interesting and extremely well-written story of Drs. Fleming, Florey and Chain. It restores my hope in humanity to know that in these times when the world's mass-mind is bent on hate and slaughter there can emerge this man-made miracle which will alleviate human suffering...