Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fisherman squinted through the hard Mediterranean light and bent his head toward the cluster of chattering tourists in the town square. "At least," he said, "they're better than prisoners...
...terms of market value, an estimated $2,000,000, the theft was the most sensational since the Louvre's Mona Lisa was stolen just 50 years ago (by an Italian bent on repatriating it). Aix, where Cezanne had lived for much of his life, had theoretically taken every precaution. Four searchlights kept the outside of the museum lighted up all night. At 12 o'clock on the night it happened, the policeman on guard assured Curator Jacqueline Martial-Salme that "everything is all right." and Mme. Martial-Salme herself made an inspection of the museum's three...
...firing line at Camp Perry, Ohio, the pigtailed blonde in striped shorts wiggled comfortably into prone position on the tarp, and consulted a makeshift wind gauge built of a bent coat hanger, a spent cartridge shell and a bit of nylon hose. Then, tucking the butt of a .22-cal. Winchester Special into her right shoulder, she began perforating the nickel-sized bull's-eye in the target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only...
Every few years, Robert Graves, the bent-nosed Jove of Majorca, lovingly revises the canon of his verse. The present edition retains most of the poems from the 1955 and earlier collections, adds some 50 new ones, and omits ten others that to the author "seemed to go dead." The reader can approve both the deletions and the additions, and note with some astonishment that while this 66-year-old poet has written of the body's defeats in a new short poem called Surgical Ward: Men, he has also added a sheaf of excellent love lyrics. Among...
...noisiest weekend in Rabaul since 1943, when U.S. bombers flattened the South Pacific town. Seemingly bent on the same sort of destruction, rival tribesmen swarmed into the two-acre market square, wrecked the open-air benches piled with produce, belted one another, battered police cars, beat up the native constabulary and shoved a fire engine over a four-foot bank. It all began when, in the midst of a jostling market crowd, a Sepik tribesman pinched the stern of a shapely Tolai tribeswoman...