Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviews, he proved for any doubter that behind the strange and medieval obscurities of his work, there was not a simulated intelligence but a wide and eccentric one, bent on its own course. He drenched himself in the horrors of Inquisitional Spain (one of his best plays is the one-act Escurial). He was a believer in the supernatural; he considered the human senses incomplete, and he was convinced that there are sounds, colors and perfumes that man has never experienced. "To the title of intellectual, which stinks, I prefer that of artisan," he said, "which has a good smell...
...corrosive]-but it breaks. Why don't you fix that?" Last week Corning announced that its scientists had come remarkably close to filling Decker's improbable order with a chemically strengthened glass called Chemcor. In a demonstration session at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Corning executives bent, twisted and banged panels of the glass. But the Chemcor, which withstands pressures up to 100,000 lbs. per sq. in. v. 7,000 Ibs. for ordinary glass, did not break...
...promoted by Russian settlements upon any part of the American continent." The second threat loomed up at the congress of European powers at Verona, Italy, in the autumn of 1822. In Spain a revolution had forced the tyrannical Ferdinand VII (Ferdinand the Unbeloved) to accept a liberal constitution. Bent on preserving absolutism, France and the Holy Alliance powers-Russia. Austria and Prussia-decided at Verona to intervene in Spain to crush the revolution...
...house" rule. It forbids payments to any woman for her dependent children if an able-bodied man lives with her; it makes no difference whether or not he is her husband. In eleven cases investigators found men hiding under beds, in closets or bathrooms-or heading hell-bent out the back door...
...began wondering what career to follow. The decision had in fact been made ten years before during a weekend visit to the Ottawa home of an old Rockefeller family friend and adviser, Canada's late Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. King strongly advised David to follow his bent for economics and foreign affairs by becoming an international banker.* The bank was easy to choose: David's uncle, Winthrop Aldrich, had headed the Chase since the early 19305. In 1946 Rockefeller joined the Chase staff as assistant manager of the foreign department...