Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of its onetime Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, no nation hates Japan more bitterly than Korea-and the antipathy is mutual. Koreans, still smarting from 35 years of harsh colonial rule by imperial Japan, regard their former masters as a cruel, crafty race bent on reasserting economic domination of their country. To most Japanese, on the other hand, Koreans are senjin-subhumans-personified by the garlic-reeking Korean thugs who rule Tokyo's underworld. Such acid antagonisms are not easily neutralized in an Asia rent by revolution and rising nationalism. Last week, nonetheless, Japan and South Korea...
...before it becomes barren," he said at the end. "I don't think Paar's half acre is completely worn out, but it has gotten a little dry lately." Yet "some day I may re-enter the lists -with a new saber neither broken nor bent-and plow up the field all over again. Come on, Leica, come on. We're going home...
...effortlessly slipping Sonny's ponderous punches. Clay hung his arms at his sides; Liston attached his arches to the canvas. The pursuit grew slower and slower, stopped altogether when Clay unloaded a solid right to Listen's head. Straining to reach Cassius with a left hook, Listen bent forward and swung. From somewhere in the general direction of his right hip, Clay flicked a right-hand chop that traveled no more than a foot to the side of Sonny's head. Listen sank to the canvas, rolled over onto his back, struggled to his knees, and went...
...tree line gaping behind him and nothing under his feet. He shot the bull four times through the eye. She felt the quake in the huge body as it sank, pulling her forward on its head, so that she seemed, when Mr. Greenleaf reached her, to be bent over whispering some last discovery into the animal...
...following list is guaranteed to contain at least three winners: Alfred Gardner '18, partner in the Boston law firm of Palmer, Dodge, Gardner and Bradford, and courageous chairman of the Massachusetts Crime Commission: Dr. Francis D. Moore '35, Moseley Professor of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Dr. Moore is in need of a pick-me-up: his arch-rival for publicity. Dr. Michael E. DeBaken, had his picture on the cover of Time last week); Randall Thompson '20: Howard Nemerov '41 (Phl Beta Kap- pa poet this year); Fred Norris Robinson '91, Gurney Professor...