Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Guys and Dolls centers on a group of friendly neighborhood thugs hell-bent on finding a place to hold "the oldest established traveling floating crap game in New York...
WHEN EDYE SMITH DROPPED OFF HER SONS Chase, 3, and Colton, 2, at the day-care center in the federal building, she still had the powdered sugar on her cheeks from where they had kissed her, their mouths full of doughnuts. Both boys were in a playful mood. Smith bent down to give Colton another kiss and he pretended to cry. As she turned her back to walk away, Colton called out joyfully to his mother and ran to give her a big hug. "I love you, Mommy." Chase also rushed forward to embrace his mother, and declared his love...
...FIRST NEWS CAME IN a whisper. The President was sitting in the Oval Office, smiling for photographers with Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, when Mike McCurry, the White House press secretary, bent close to his ear. CNN, McCurry said, was reporting that an explosion had destroyed part of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Stay on top of it, Clinton replied. The President then escorted Ciller to a meeting in the Cabinet Room. It was there that Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff, passed the President a yellow legal pad with notes scribbled across the page with Panetta...
Maybe it's just chance or a comedy of errors--or maybe the gods of the housing lottery have a peculiarly literary bent. Stranger things have happened...
...BRIEFLY DOCUMENTED THE EXTENT to which Asahara was poisoned by the insecurity of poverty in his life. Face it: human existence is as fragile as the development of human character. The greatest police force in the world cannot protect us from those who have been "bent" enough to murder. Our only hope is to stop the bending of human lives by one of the most destructive forces on earth: abject poverty. Every day poverty kills innocent children at many times the rate of Hitler's death camps and permanently disables 10 for each one who dies. Children and adults alike...