Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told the purpose of the eight points: "to give hope and the assurance of final victory to those many scores of millions of men and women who are battling for life and freedom or who are already bent down under the Nazi yoke...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...
Bewildered by this sudden turn of events (though something like it had been promised), consumers wondered how the remaining 90% was going to be distributed. Outside of declaring that service stations should discriminate in favor of commercial and farm vehicles and private cars on business bent, Mr. Henderson gave no hint. Distribution was up to the man at the pump...
...Which way are they lying, Frank?' Smith said. 'Head here, legs there, body bent round here.' 'Very awkward,' said Smith." Then Ford looked. "There was no blood or gross mutilation. But the bodies had become part of the debris; they had become one constituent of the many constituents of the mound. They had been crushed and pressed into the decomposed raw material of the five houses...
...cheering thing about the North Carolina exercises: Army and Navy, having at last bent their stiff necks, were working together in the same training yoke...