Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Position yourself against a wall in sitting posture, with knees bent at right angles, and in this "unsupported sit" read The New York Times from cover to cover. (It looks easy...
...matter how much it hurts, he will have to repeat that exercise scores of times a day. Hundreds of times a day he will have to contract the big quadriceps muscle that runs down the front of the thigh, tying together the femur, kneecap and tibia. With knee bent and also extended, he will lift weights on his right foot. By July, if all goes well, he should be ready for practice, and for the rigors of professional football...
...sled was too fast for its own good: on a practice run, Steersman Larry McKillip hit a rut and lost control coming out of Shamrock Bend, and smashed full force into the retaining wall. The sled's frame was hopelessly bent, and McKillip bruised an arm. The solution seemed obvious: slow down. But that didn't work, either: Steersman James Hickey took the four-man G.M. sled into Devil's Dyke so slowly that it could not hold the wall. The sled dropped like a stone from the face of the curve, and the runners were damaged...
When a dozen highway patrolmen emerged from Sproul--bent on moving the public address system forward to clear the top step--a roar of protest went up from the crowd...
...cited Transport Minister Hans-Christoph See-bohm and former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss as "names behind which living humanity suspects inhumanity personified." West German democracy, he said, "only shares the name with what one used to understand by it," and the leading political parties are bent on creating a dictatorship that would make Hitler seem like "an orphan boy." For that reason, Niemöller urged Christians to mock next September's elections by turning in ballots invalidated by written expressions of scorn for the contending parties...