Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful Red Army seized Orel and drove on. For nearly two years Orel had been a key bastion of Hitler's forces in Russia. Now the Wehrmacht's high command issued a terse communiqué: "In the course of a shortening of the front in the Orel bend, the evacuation of the city of Orel, which had been planned for quite some time was carried out, undisturbed by the enemy...
...Family. In South Bend, Ind., widower Dick Hoslinger paved his way toward the armed forces by having his mother adopt his daughter, who became her dependent and his sister...
...suggestion that this department investigate the Art Hodes bend at the Hofbrau in Lawrence, Mass, was undoubtedly a partial violation of the cardinal Army axiom. "Keep your mouth shut and don't volunteer." Hence the fate that so often overtakes the sealous committee member who dreams up an idea and gets elected to the job of seeing it through...
Those khaki shorts worn by WARREN BARTHG must have been made for a midget and if you knew the size of WARREN you'd wonder how he ever got into them and much less bend over . . . I thought I'd spilt when he did the jumping Jack routine. . . he almost...
When the great week came, the banks of the Isis from Folly Bridge to The Gut (a tricky S bend where crews first appear to the majority of spectators) were dizzy with excitement. On the Oxford side of the river, the college barges were a crush of gay parasols, gaudy blazers, tinkling tea cups, squeaking gramophones. On the other side, coaches, undergraduates, townsfolk and dogs flocked along the towpath -some on bicycle, some afoot - keeping abreast of their favorite boat. Coaches shouted through megaphones; others yelled, rattled rattles, tooted horns, fired blank cartridges. Many a cyclist in his heedless excitement...