Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time in as many months, the panic was on. Men & women crowded into the stores, bent on buying whatever they could while the buying was still relatively good. They bought liquor, they bought radios, they bought jewelry. On all these things (and many more) the drastic new taxes for defense went into effect this week...
Norbert A. Wilhelm, superintendent of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, as lecturer on Public Health Practice...
...Russia's enormous flanks were being bent inward last week, Russia's center was charging hard. In defense of Moscow, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's three-week-old counter-attacks were reported to be only twelve miles from Smolensk at one point. The Russians said they were constantly shelling that city...
Pundits in the entertainment business have been aware for many months that as the world's wars grew grimmer, people have grown harder to communicate with. With U.S. liquor consumption, roadhouse business and the automobile accident rate spiraling giddily, it appeared that a harassed people was bent on finding speedier escape from its troubles, did not want to see or hear anything very much-even vhen the hearing was free...
...Protestant Pacifist Walter Van Kirk, head of the National Peace Conference and secretary of the Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace, acknowledged that "the use of force is not immoral for the preservation of law and order by a world society that is heroically bent upon establishing justice...