Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Question-Mark Emblem. The New York meeting brought about a pregnant truce in as strange a war as the Republican Party had ever seen. It started in October 1958, when Rocky was running for Governor in his first try for elective office. He was so ambitiously bent on projecting his own rather than a party image that a top Rockefeller backer urged Nixon to cancel a scheduled TV speech in New York City lest he spoil that image. Nixon came to New York and had a well-publicized breakfast with Rocky...
...first to set the Bacon thesis really sizzling was an Ohio-born schoolteacher named Delia Bacon, no kin. Bent on digging up the Bard, she invaded Holy Trinity Church, lantern in hand, one night in 1856, only to be appalled by the question of whether she should dig up Raleigh or Bacon instead. Unhinged by this quandary, she died hopelessly insane three years later. In 1888 Ignatius Donnelly, a onetime Congressman from Minnesota, uncorked the following numbers game: on page 53 of the histories in the first Folio he found the word Bacon ("I have a gammon of Bacon"), which...
...auto industry will give a big boost to employment by scheduling its biggest production since 1950 for September and October. Mindful of the election coming up, United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther saw that as a deep-dyed plot by Big Three carmakers bent "on juggling production schedules for political reasons." Once Election Day was past, and the Republicans were reelected, he went on, "output would have to be cut back drastically with resultant layoffs and extensive short work weeks." The Big Three angrily retorted that there was too much money involved and too deadly a commercial rivalry...
Medical scientists this week reported a major advance toward one of their most cherished goals: the ability to replace diseased or worn-out human organs. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of doctors from Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital described the first successful attempt to graft a man with a kidney from somebody other than an identical twin. The patient is alive and healthy after 18 months-long enough to suggest that he has a chance of living a near-normal life. Led by Dr. John P. Merrill, the doctors succeeded by subjecting...
...Soldiers Understand. The Montenegrins finally won, and Gary witnessed the surrender. Piece by piece the siege artillery was handed over by a crying Turkish officer who bent down and kissed each gun. The hardy mountaineers set about picking up their lives, and Gary set out for home. In his notes, he has almost nothing to say about the cause or cure of war; he neither reviles nor glories in it. Already the future novelist was simply recording human experience, usually with a painter's touch that gives the Memoir its most notable quality. Gary's own drawings illustrate...