Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead spider leg would stretch if he squeezed it gently. He then injected liquids into spiders' legs with a superfine hypodermic and got some very satisfactory stretching. When he dehydrated spiders by keeping them for several weeks without water, they lost their stretching ability and walked with bent legs...
...boom, which had gradually engulfed city after city across the U.S., was now lapping finally into the last sancta of the rich in Miami-and in New York. Even in the most gilded of joints the service was bad; and at the bars coarse new characters joggled the Martini-bent arms of the Older Members...
...Look, there's one of our guys-there on the right. See him, quick." Periscopes swiveled jerkily. We saw him, lying huddled on his belly, his head bent under to one side...
...bottom of the cycle? To such a hypothetical question, Mr. Flynn would probably answer: Yes, the Swedes know how to spend on the downbeat and how to tax and pay off deadweight debt on the upbeat. But the U.S., like pre-fascist Italy and pre-Hitler Germany, seems bent on spending all the time. Mr. Flynn seems to imply that we just haven't got the brains of the Swedes...
...leans over the horns, slips the sword into the small spot between the bull's shoulder blades. If the bull tosses its head, if the man's aim is not true, if he loses his nerve, he misses. The sword may be tossed in the air, perhaps bent from the force of the bull's charge. Then the matador must take another sword and steel himself to try again. But if his thrust succeeds, the bull stops with the handle of the sword projecting from his shoulders, stands for a moment and drops dead...