Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known that she's pregnant, her mother crinkles her sad but wise eyes and says, "You love him very much, don't you?" instead of calling the police. And the abortionist turns out to be a prosperous-looking physician instead of the usual touchless crone with a bent coat-hanger...
Naming the Dates. As they dug deeper into the warped world of Frank Gonzales, investigators discovered that he had been bent on suicide and had broadcast the fact far and wide. "Mr. Gonzales had advised both friends and relatives that he would die on either Wednesday, the 6th of May, or Thursday, the 7th of May," said the CAB report. "He referred to his impending death on a daily basis throughout the week preceding the accident...
...didn't I?" It was enough to confuse anybody. In one of the wildest finishes in racing history, Britain's Surtees became the 1964 Grand Prix champion-by the humbling margin of a leaky oil line and a bent exhaust pipe...
...slip past; four times he failed-coming so close to Hill's B.R.M. that the Briton shook his fist in anger. On the 31st lap he tried again-and this time he slammed into the B.R.M., bounced it clear off the track into a fence. Tail pipes bent, title hopes shattered, Hill limped into the pits and exploded with rage: "Rank amateur driving. Inexcusable." That put Surtees fourth, but after 63 laps, Clark's Lotus was still far ahead, and the championship was surely...
...after the first of the year. Some state organizations, too, must be wrested from the clutches of Goldwater men. And in Congress, symbols of the right wing like House Minority Leader Charles Halleck of Indiana and Minority Whip Les Arends of Illinois may find themselves threatened by young moderates bent on revolt. Whatever the mechanics of change to come, one thing is certain: Barry Goldwater and his type of conservatism have had their moment...