Word: bende
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Still, the children wheedled old battle stories out of the principals. They know the creek bend where a grisly ambush occurred, and the ridge where Jim Vance (a Hatfield inlaw) made a hellbent stand against far too many McCoys. And they think they know who was to blame, though their opinions tend to run along family lines. Robert McCoy, 36, the well-fed and worldly mayor of Matewan, points a finger at the meddlesome Hatfields who invaded the election grounds: "Politics-that was what the whole thing was about. One family meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy...
...condemning to death by hanging all those who do not confess they are guilty of witchcraft--flesh out each role to the fullest. The small room echoes, and candlesticks shake as Mattlin, in a phenomenal portrayal of conscientiousness and religious fervor turned fanatical, forces everyone in the courtroom to bend to his will by pure dominance of personality...
...bend in the river has the best bass fishing in Eastern Massachusetts," Barron said. She added that her organization, a private group working on cleaning the river, is pressuring the state to open a swimming beach on the Charles, about 30 miles up river from Harvard...
...similar resolution was voted down by a five-man majority that included Vellucci before last week's city elections; lack of support from candidates committed to rent control for his candidacy "might" have had something to do with his switch, Vellucci said. "I have a right to bend...I'm not frozen into anything," he added...
...slugger. He lowered his hand position after turning pro, and the extra leverage he acquired gave him a ferocious punch. Hearns used the advantage of his reach to flick jabs into Leonard's face, while Leonard, trying to get inside those long arms, was forced to bend until his torso was almost parallel to the canvas, then reach up to keep his punches above the belt. Looking like a man who was stooping down to stick his chewing gum under a table, Leonard took repeated short rights under his left eye. By the third round the eye had begun...