Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he had sworn to "the best of my ability [to] preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States . . . so help me God," Harry Truman bent quickly to kiss the Bibles, turned to face the crowd...
...mustached, cigar-puffing Aubrey Ashby, 62, onetime vice president of the National Broadcasting Co., didn't like anything that had been happening under his last two predecessors. Olivet (enrollment: 287) had earned quite a reputation as a progressive college with a highly literary flavor and a strong political bent. As far as Ashby was concerned, the place was a hotbed of socialists, pacifists, and foggy-minded liberals...
...candles were lighted, old men in black skull caps joyfully started to chant the ancient Hanukkah hymn. The younger ones barely remembered the words. Once more, the Jews of Spain, who used to be the world's richest and proudest, had an open, permanent place of worship. A bent old man sighed: "Now I can die. Now I'll have a funeral following the religion of my forefathers...
...system looks so promising that the hospital is now giving the special treatment to 200 patients, and other VA hospitals have adopted the treatment. One of the wrinkles added by the Bedford (Mass.) Hospital: a three-paneled mirror. It helps patients who slump along with bent head and shoulders to straighten up, look the world in the face...
...headquarters were in a mud hut within a mud-walled compound. Outside the door a soldier hunched over a twig fire, drying his cotton shoes. Inside the hut at a table, the commander of Li's Eighth Army bent over a map. Two candles stuck in their own wax at the corners of the table were the only light. Li waved us to seats around the table and called for food...