Word: bents
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...depleted" uranium imported from the former West Germany in 1976. That was a red flag for the IAEA, because depleted uranium is no good for power-plant fuel and creates more plutonium when it decays than does ordinary uranium. When the agency found out, "it really got people bent out of shape," says Mark Hibbs, Asia and Europe editor at industry publication Nucleonics Week. "That made them very keen to explore more about...
...people are hell-bent on voting for Nader, they might as well not ruin the country by electing George W. Bush again,” Frank said...
Given Princeton’s bent towards a sort of celebration of excellence in a cornucopia of fields and not academics alone—that is to say its love of winning basketball, soccer and lacrosse games, and maybe football, too, if only its program weren’t so wretched—its superiority in this one facet, and only this one, should come as little surprise...
...Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards have telephoned; and Kerry dropped in on the editors one day in September, despite a sore throat that had forced him to cancel a campaign appearance. "We're deficit hawks from way back," says Curtin. "So both sides have bent over backwards to give us access." The paper's choice, like the election, is still a toss-up. --By Michael Duffy
...romping “Kinky Afro” without bothering with any introduction. “Son, I’m thirty / I only went with your mother cause she’s dirty,” Shaun Ryder enters, immediately launching listeners into the Mondays’ bent, polluted world, where joyous “Yippee-yippee-yi-yi-yay!”s stolen from Patti LaBelle are followed by “I had to crucify some brother today!” Properly indoctrinated, we progress through a surreal encounter with the police (“God?...