Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curia men and decided that the council would be conducted entirely in Latin without simultaneous translation ?thus effectively cutting off many Latin-shy bishops from the proceedings. In preparing the 69 proposals to be discussed at the council (since reduced to 20), they followed their own theologically conservative bent, frequently ignored the suggestions that the Pope had asked the world's bishops to submit...
...been exactly ardent. At a ceremony in the Court of Honor of the 17th century Hotel des Invalides. General de Gaulle draped over General Norstad's shoulder the crimson sash and golden star of the Legion of Honor, its highest award. Like a courting giraffe, le grand Charles bent to give Lauris the buss that only one hero can bestow upon another...
...Loss of Scholars. That purpose was to tell the Jewish immigrant, in his own language, about life in the bewildering new world. During its early years the Forward had a strong Socialist bent, but its paternalism was even stronger. "Since when is Socialism opposed to clean noses?" said the late Ab Cahan, editor from 1902 until his retirement in 1950, after some party member objected to an editorial that urged mothers to keep their kinderle stocked with clean handkerchiefs. Socialist polemics were leavened with simple lessons on civics, American history and the Constitution. Readers ventilated their problems in "Bintel Brief...
...Governor of Pennsylvania, Republican William Scranton denied that he had any national ambitions for '64. Yet such is the contradictory language of politics that the more one denies, the more one is thought to affirm. In that sense, Scranton last week seemed to some to be heading hell-bent...
...forehead furrowed with the effort of concentration, a massive, middle-aged Negro sat scrunched at a fourth-grader's desk in a Chicago public school. Bent over a ruled notebook, he slowly scrawled one letter, then another. Finally he leaned back and smiled. "Look at that," he beamed at his neighbor. "Look at that."' It was something to see. For the first time in his life, the man had written his name. Joyfully, he wrote it again, and then again...