Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former automobile company, which in 1949 sold off all its automotive properties and became solely an investment holding company. Bent exclusively on building up capital, Graham-Paige has not paid a cash dividend since 1926 but has increased its net worth from $2,500,000 to $18.5 million in the past twelve years...
Amateur radio operators are called hams, and it is easy to see why: talk, talk, talk-that's all they seem to do. There are 250,000 of them in the U.S., and another estimated 100,000 elsewhere in the world, all of them chiefly bent on short-wave conversation about capacitors, resistors, transmitters, antennas, and occasionally, the weather and what is playing at the local movie house...
Unable to straighten up completely because of her recent gall-bladder extraction (TIME, July 7), convalescent Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 35, was further bent by a madding mob of 300 as she was propelled out of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital. While some blamed her new tornado tresses on the shoddy protection of her eight-man flying wedge of hospital attendants, insiders suspected the genius of Jacqueline Kennedy's coiffeur, Mr. Kenneth...
...Chinese leaders has remained the same," and how they can argue that "the Soviet Union should use its present overwhelming superiority in missiles, rockets and nuclear weapons" to dictate terms to the West even if it means war. The trouble is that China, "being obsessed with Formosa," is bent on "liberating Formosa even at the risk of world...
Across the River and Into the Trees, and a small but immutable achievement, The Old Man and the Sea. For the rest, the legend engulfed the man, and he seemed bent on playing the part of a Hemingway character...