Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transplanted from a comfortable C.I.O. clothing workers' union to the windiest spot in the capital, Mr. Hillman was given the vast assignment of the defense program's labor problems. Shrewd, resilient, he has bent before gales but still held fast until a dispute started in the Federal Works Agency...
Mexico and the Caribbean nations are closely tied up with the democracies economically and naturally pursue a friendly policy. Since the accession of Avila Comacho, Mexico has bent every effort to cooperate with the anti-Nazi nations, he added...
...suggested to the legendary son of Methuselah by the sight of the skeleton leg of his own dead son, whose body he had suspended (it was the custom) from a tree. The lute's body represented the thighbone, its long neck, the leg bone; its bent head, the foot; its tuning pegs, the toes; its strings, the dried veins fluttering from the bones. The lute was the great instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance until the viols drowned it out. In shape, its only popular successor is the lowly mandolin; but in sound the guitar comes closer...
...Coach Clark Shaughnessy's tricks. So far, Oregon and U.C.L.A. have failed to do so. Last week against U.C.L.A., Shaughnessy used 48 substitutes, watched his tribe tomahawk the Bruins 33-to-0, Stanford's twelfth victory in a row. One team that may stop Stanford is Washington, bent on revenge for last year's defeat (its only conference defeat of the season...
...Three dud shells lie in what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...