Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the next seven months he labored to arouse his indolent countrymen. It was not hard to do: 2,503 years of bloody history had engendered in them a hatred for foreigners, a natural bent for vendettas and guerrilla fighting in the blood-red rocks, the snow-capped peaks. D'Istria armed the Corsicans with 10,000 submachine guns (dropped by parachute, hauled in by submarine). He fired them with the memory and the zeal of the greatest Corsican of them all-Napoleon Bonaparte...
...this called for mathematical precision, and Admiral Hewitt brought to his task one of the most brilliant mathematical minds the Navy ever had. To his natural bent he had added some formidable experience. Last July he was given the job of planning the Moroccan landings. He had to design armored force landings, organize transport divisions and train 3,000 amphibious boat crews. He had to send his huge force across the Atlantic and still have it rendezvous at the exact time for the landings. His success brought him this, the biggest job of his life...
When Lawson stood up, his legs felt numb. He walked around in circles in the driving rain. His oaths were strange and thick. His upper teeth were bent in. He put his thumbs behind them and tried to push them straight. They broke off in his hands. He tried the lower teeth-they came off in his hands too. He stood in the rain with a handful of wet teeth and gum. Davenport came up to him, held Lawson's head back, said: "God damn! You're really bashed open. Your whole face is pushed...
...leave in Los Angeles, I had opportunity to investigate the zoot suit feud [TIME, June 21]. . . . I could find nothing to ""distinguish the behavior of our soldiers from the behavior of Nazi storm troop thugs that roved Berlin in mobs bent on beating up outnumbered non-Aryans...
...Wrong. Stewart joined the New York Times in the mid-'30s, principally because of its reputation as the fairest and most reliable of U.S. papers. He still thinks it is, but by his own standards he did not find it perfect. During the Spanish Civil War the Times bent backward to be neutral and impartial, and Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger is quoted as saying: "I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides. . . ." Ken Stewart's reaction was that Publisher Sulzberger was glad he was not "compelled to choose between...