Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great mystery story that started with the Moscow purge trials of 1936-38 had not yet been solved. In spite of a thousand explanations, the free world still had little clue as to how Stalin's agents broke or bent the wills of their own comrades, of Mindszenty-and now those of the Bulgarian Protestant pastors. All confessed to what was certainly not true...
Mississippi's rancorous old Dixiecrat John Rankin had been nursing his wounds and biding his time. He had been bent on revenge ever since House Democrats unceremoniously kicked him off the publicity-making Un-American Activities Committee. Last week, like an angry mosquito, he circled, swooped and stung Congress spang on one of its most sensitive political spots. Over the loud protests of his Veterans' Affairs Committee (seven members walked out on him), Chairman Rankin highhandedly rammed through a staggering pension bill which seemed designed as much to pay back his congressional enemies...
...want to get our armor on the move . . . but they're held up until we can get infantry to winkle the guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching up out of a mass of brick and timbers . . ." and very little else of the sth Battalion. But the British tanks, "their commanders standing like conquerors in their open turrets," rumble through, towards Germany...
...asked his mother to stay with him. Churchmen who visited them reported mother Mindszenty and her son to be calm and happy. Priests said that whenever government officials came to see the cardinal, he proudly held his hand higher & higher as they bent to kiss his ring...
Margaret Wade Lyons, wife of Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, died yesterday at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. She was 52 years...