Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assumed in the eyes of America the appearance of the greatest crisis in the past 2,000 years. The country has been told insistently that a German victory will threaten our way of life. For years we have been educated to look upon Germany as anti-Christian and uncivilized, bent on world domination. We have come to see the situation too much in black and white, and are thus incapacitated for any realistic appraisal of the problems of Europe. As a result, even some of our coolest heads are now saying, "We have given up the idea that by fighting...
Last week, as he has every week since 1938, "Captain" Chan climbed over the side, rowed solemnly ashore, asked with impassive Oriental punctilio for sailing orders. As always, there were none. For the Kwang Yuan there may never be any. "Captain" Chan bowed politely, bent his oars back to his command...
...silk, front or back buttons. Perhaps a nervous giggle, an appraising glance over the rim of his highball glass, and it would all be over. Conversation would again flow unchecked. It is a beautiful equilibrium of forces, but, lacking indifference, it would almost certainly topple. Before the elbow had bent many more times, the danger point would come, the hand reach forth, and--. The lesson is clear enough: our indifference is a priceless asset. It leaves us something to work on, something to challenge us. The Associated Harvard Clubs meeting is answering the challenge without, as the rules say, "aprosexia...
...square question would be presented, whether to aid them by methods no longer short of war, using them as our outlying defense posts; or whether to let them be beaten, treble our navy, radically alter our economic system, and meet the ultimate issue between us and the dictatorships bent on dominating the world.'' While Franklin Roosevelt has vowed to send abroad no U. S. troops-for which there is no military need-he has said nothing about sending the U. S. Navy and Air Force...
...Glory-bent citizen, driving 80 miles an hour for a priest to be shriven, turned over twice on a curve, lived to tell...