Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupied an old tumble-down house upon the borders of Regents Park and his bent, shabby, slovenly and, latterly, somewhat obese figure was frequently to be seen in the adjacent gardens. . . . 'Some day,' he would be heard to say, 'I shall write a book, a real book...
...after the first run, she was ready. She was down the runway and off. Eddie Allen tucked up her legs and she whisked away from the field, slim, slick, slightly bent in her fore-and-aft line so that her nose drooped like an ant-eater's. An hour later she had landed at Muroc Lake and the Army Air Forces...
Moreover, Dean Rodman W. Paul '36 was caught in Harry's Arcade the other day bent over the Champ, which was registering a score which an observer described as "close to pay dirt...
...spread into their lives. But more than the transition class they are the transition generation. All were born during the ten year period that followed 1918. All were told that war has no excuse, even as a last measure; they were told of conferences held by nations bent on peace. But they saw Versailles torn by permission, the world torn by depression, and war return by general consent of the people; all this after the age of reason and before they could vote...
...Yugoslav Government-in-Exile was hastily formed in the summer of 1941 by men who symbolized most of the political errors of the past two decades. Last week the sexagenarian exiles gave themselves an overdue shake-up and ousted bent, deaf, secretive, forgetful Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich...