Word: bende
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Becky sat in the corner chewing her nails. If Tom takes the car, why don't you ride to the dentist tomorrow? asked Myrtle. It's fifteen miles, said Becky. Don't bend the spoons! Myrtle told her harshly. Eagle Star can take you thirty miles, easy, she said. Becky straightened the spoon. How far to Vegas, asked Rick. A ways, said Myrtle. Becky laughed...
...real villain of Squaw Valley was a stretch of snow on the women's downhill course. Shooting down the steepest part of the run, skiers would suddenly hit a bumpy, hard-packed mound that sent them flying just as they reached a 90° bend, appropriately dubbed "the airplane corner." The high hopes of the American women crashed at that turn: Betsy Snite and two teammates spilled. Pitou did not fall, but she tottered, squandering precious ticks of the clock and losing the gold medal by 1 sec. to Germany's Heidi Biebl...
...then Harvard coach Billy Cleary started dangling the prospect of playing in the Beanpot instead of just watching it. Did Burke really want to spend four years in South Bend, Indiana, where the word "Beanpot" draws a blank stare instead of glazed eyes? He did not. "I'd sacrifice almost anything just to win a Beanpot," the sophomore center says...
...chance to bend a responsive ear has helped to ease the lingering postcombat trauma of many veterans. Said Cleland: "Some guys are absolutely paralyzed by P.V.S. They have to have a compassionate environment to let themselves...
...When the lyrics are right, it's easier for me to write a tune than to bend over and tie my shoelaces," Richard Rodgers once remarked. Many composers would have been happy to tie Rodgers' shoes for him if only they had been able to fill them. He could write anything, and to order and to suit. When Oscar Hammerstein II handed him the lyric for Bali Ha'i, Rodgers studied it for a moment, then turned the typed page over, retired to the next room and five minutes later came back with the completed melody...