Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Big Carnival. Kirk Douglas is a small-town reporter bent on making the big time...
...findings: only one out of five was ever used to clip one piece of paper to another. Of the 80,000 others, 19,413 were used as chips in card games, 15,842 were wrapped in tissue for use as typewriter-key cleaners, 14,163 were bent into grotesque shapes during telephone conversations, 7,212 held ladies' stockings in place, 5,434 picked particles of food from between teeth, 5,309 cleaned fingernails, 3,196 reamed out pipes, 2,431 tightened screws, and 7,000 plain disappeared...
...look at certain pictures of blacked-out New York City, you can see very plainly, hovering over the city, a flying saucer. Obviously the power failure [Nov. 19] was only a preliminary to a massive invasion by alien forces bent on destroying the human race. You must be relieved to know it wasn't Russian sabotage...
Frederic M. Dean Jr., a first-year student in the Law School, died Monday in Peter Bent Brigham hospital. A native of Butte, Montana, Dean graduated cum laude from the University of Utah...
Once he is engaged by a customer bent on merger, the broker calls upon his pals, partners and researchers-and his own know-how-to draw up a list of companies that can at least be flirted with. Then he telephones or visits the top executives of those companies-doors are always open to the leading bankers-and discreetly sounds them out, never revealing the name of his client until the two firms agree to become serious. When the two begin active courting, the investment bankers act as chaperons, or sometimes referees, help to work out the terms...