Word: bents
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...there has been no real agreement on the issue. The A.C.L.U., along with a support group for military families, sued to overturn the ban. The case was dismissed in 1996. The Pentagon has intermittently bent its rules. In 1996, it made public the return of the remains of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 32 other Americans who died with him. In 2000, after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, the caskets once again appeared before cameras...
...world opinion so opposed to the actions taken against Hamas by the Israeli military? How would Americans respond to an organization that was hell-bent on eliminating the U.S. as a viable country? Hamas may provide social services for average Palestinians?who have gone without such help because of corruption in the Palestinian Authority?but for Israelis, Hamas is as bad as the Nazis were for Jews. The Palestinians just want to wipe us off the face of the earth. In my view, every possible initiative against Hamas, including execution, is acceptable. Mike Druttman Hod Hasharon, Israel...
When Henrik Ibsen wrote Hedda Gabler, he created characters whose psychologies would push them ever closer to destruction as the play progressed. Chekhov said that if a gun is onstage in the first act, it will go off in the last act; Ibsen is so bent on his characters’ destruction that he puts onstage two guns, a lighter, and a bar full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction...
Quincy's John Waciuma bent Bob O'Meara of Mather in an aggressive bout that never lulled. Both fighters delivered plenty of powerful punches, but Waciuma's strong blows to his opponent's head gave him the victory...
...youth then handed a large pair of clippers to a companion, who bent down over a second bicycle, Fitts said...