Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listened to President Johnson's State of the Union address, I think you'll understand why." Johnson, he charged, had "out-Roosevelted Roosevelt, out-Kennedyed Kennedy, and even made Harry Truman look like some kind of a piker." Far from having a conservative bent, he said, Johnson "has outliberaled every liberal since...
...white and saffron party flags fluttered from hundreds of flagpoles, and pictures of Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi adorned shop windows. On his arrival, Nehru was so weak that aides had to lift him from a helicopter, and when he finally was able to walk, he shuffled away with back bent and head bowed. At a flag-raising ceremony, his words were almost inaudible. At the first party sessions, Nehru was quiet and subdued. Then he collapsed...
...dirty-minded Harvard students are apparently ill-bred, licentious, decadent, lusty, oversexed, akin to the lower animals, undisciplined, and bent on destroying female virtue and jeopardizing stable society, the New England Journal of Medicine suggested in an editorial this week...
...Like most first-class surfers, Cabell has only scorn for the "hot doggers" who risk their necks by crisscrossing waves haphazardly. It takes art to stand, knees slightly bent, arms spread, guiding the board along the tube with almost imperceptible foot movements. And only a few ever experience the ultimate thrill. "Once in a while," says Joey, "you get locked so deep in the tube that nobody on the beach can see you, and if a guy were just behind you, he'd get totally wiped out. You are so far back inside the wave that it breaks right...
...stayed awake to see last week's eclipse of the moon were treated to an astronomical surprise: the moon actually did disappear from view. Even during a total eclipse, the moon usually glows red after it slides into shadow because a small amount of refracted sunlight is bent around the earth by the atmosphere. This time, as observers in the small chilly hours watched the earth's shadow creep across the lunar surface, the moon's light finally flickered out entirely...