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Word: bents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deserved the same punishment. Therefore they denied the very basis of the punishment--physical obstruction--and refused to clear themselves even if not directly involved. By insisting on the collective moral strength of their cause, some demonstrators precluded any cooperation with a Board that was bent on being fair to everyone concerned...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, Richard R. Edmonds, Kerry Gruson, John A. Herfort, Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., Richard D. Paisner, and Gerald M. Rosberg, S | Title: The Faculty's Stern Decision | 11/2/1967 | See Source »

Armed authorities usually over-react to civil disorder. But this is no excuse for the behavior of many of the troops this weekend. They should have known that the demonstrators were not lawless thugs, bent on ravagaing the insides of the Pentagon. More important, the troops and officers should have realized that their brutality--and implicitly that of the government--will only spur on further illegal acts of resistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The March on the Pentagon | 10/24/1967 | See Source »

Bucknell upset Harvard when they last met in 1964, and the Crimson seems bent on gaining revenge by comparative scores this fall. The Bisons have lost to two teams Harvard has beaten and to a third the Crimson plays today. Another similar situation will be set up this afternoon when Penn downs Bucknell, 27-14. If Harvard ends the season beating four Bison tamers, more than revenge will be sweet...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Eleven to Meet Cornell In Decisive Ivy Struggle Today | 10/21/1967 | See Source »

...works, of course, are Picasso's monuments, represented by the model for the recently installed Chicago Civic Center sculpture and a photomontage of a heroic female figure to be installed in The Netherlands. The smallest are the impish, effervescent, often forthrightly erotic metal cutouts. Brightly painted and deftly bent, they look like cubist paintings in 21 dimensions-and, by a curious coincidence, 21 dimensions is what dozens of younger painters are going for right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Doodles of Genius | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...circuitous route so that he can be surer of his ground. He loves the facts, detests disarray and imprecision, and spends his working hours trying to define life within a framework of the law. He is not born this way; it takes a law school to turn the necessary bent of mind. And for thousands of hopeful lawyers, the pre-eminent place to be trained is, and has always been, Harvard Law School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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