Word: bents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chest worshipfully. Frederick allowed the housemaid to take him into her arms. She held him, stroking his body as if he were an enormous child. Frederick whimpered and cooed. “Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth,” he moaned at last and Roxanna bent down and pressed her lips innocently against those of her employer. “You are saved,” she murmured. “He cannot touch you any more.” She felt Frederick’s tongue swim into her mouth like a fish...
...Obama belonged to a party that was bent on retribution; he preached reconciliation, and when voters were asked a year ago who had the best chance of winning, Hillary Clinton crushed him, 71% to 26%. He had to build a new church and reach out to the seekers who had lost faith in government or never had any in the first place. He ran not so much on any creed as on the belief that everything was broken, that the very system that produces candidates and frames issues and decides who loses and who wins in public life does little...
Considering Race in Missouri, 12:30 p.m. E.T. Along The Paseo, Kansas City's storied urban corridor, a 62-year-old man with a bent back made his way down the sidewalk with the help of a walnut cane. He was carrying a heavy metal folding chair, which had helped him through his two-hour wait to vote at St. James United Methodist Church, one of the city's largest "Freedom Ward" polling places. He wore a kufi of African mudcloth design and a watch chain dangled from his trouser pocket. He had a hike of a mile...
...gets swindled into a plot to blow up Madison Square Garden. But in offering Malone a re-education in "patriotism" and letting him survive the movie, it's nicer to Moore than the Trey Parker-Matt Stone marionette movie Team America: World Police was. In that one, Moore was bent on destroying Mount Rushmore and so became a suicide bomber...
...doesn't help that President Bush seems bent on dismantling as many of the nation's environmental regulations as possible before his time runs out. With less than three months to go, the White House is looking to tweak regulations that will make mountaintop mining easier, ease catch limits for certain kinds of fish, lighten the regulation of drinking water and potentially allow power plants to emit more greenhouse gases. "We already know this Administration has a deep, unwavering ideology of deregulation," said Representative Edward Markey, the chairman of the select committee on energy independence and global warming. "With scant...