Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Souls in search of final blessing often came to the temple of a powerful Hindu goddess in Calcutta. But nearby, many discovered another source of solace: a small woman, wrinkled and bent, a willing companion to the dying. She tenderly cared for the abandoned and the sick, washing their wounds, soothing their sores, preparing them for death. "They must feel wanted, loved," Mother Teresa said. "They are Jesus...
...ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap Moi, or the U.S. would "drop him like a hot potato." Though his antipathy for Moi is common knowledge, Museveni has lately bent over backward to bring Moi into the East African Cooperation, an off-again, on-again economic pact among Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, and he seems unlikely to wreck that. But an aide to Rwanda's Kagame told TIME: "Moi will go. Perhaps not with elections...
...hours before sundown, the wagon train made camp. I had walked only a few miles that day, but I was parched and exhausted. A meal was served. I sat in the dirt and devoured a plate of meat loaf, while around me devout believers watered horses, repaired bent wagon wheels, fed bottles to crying infants. In just a few days, to quote their ancestors, they would cross the mountains and be "safe in Zion." I could not help wishing them well. In their epic trek across Smith's American Eden, they have lost more paradises than they've found...
...enterprise, the basis of a democracy. nato is much more than a military alliance that reacts to threats. It is an active, positive force that allows nations to become democracies, the best guarantee of peace. A democratic Russia has nothing to fear from NATO,expanded or otherwise. A Russia bent on following its Soviet past, however, should be limited in its scope of aggression. KALMAN NEMETH Harwinton, Conn...
...swollen, discolored result means that the chairman is hard-pressed to fight departmental budget wars with dignity. He has an unsatisfactory negotiation with the campus executive officer, a lizard whose "carefully calculated sincerity is almost indistinguishable from the real thing." This fellow, of course, is bent on downsizing what once was called the liberal arts. Devereaux rebels, and with TV cameras churning (dignitaries are cutting the ribbon for a grand new engineering complex), he grabs a goose from the campus pond and threatens to kill it and another like it every day until the English department gets its funding...