Word: bende
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Having had the mantle of Cato the Censor draped upon my reluctant shoulders by the CRIMSON, hence-forth I will bend every effort to save Harvard's undergraduates from their sinful selves. CRIMSON WRITERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS, BEWARE! MY WATCHFUL EYES ARE UPON YOU. Arthur Friedman Teaching Fellow in Humanities
Even CURV went round the bend. After attaching two claws to the bomb's parachute lines, it got hopelessly tangled trying to attach a third. Exasperated, Guest decided to try hauling up the whole conglomeration-bomb, parachute, CURV and all-while the weather still held fair. Luckily, CURV somehow disentangled itself on the way up, and the rest of the recovery went off without a hitch...
...Through it all ran the baleful influence of Viet Nam's powerful Buddhists, who have helped to topple four previous governments. This time, however, they were up against not only Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, but a whole Directory of tough and determined generals who did not mean to bend easily before the demands of Buddhist monks, particularly when many of the monks openly egged on the rioting mobs...
...away from it all," said Lady Bird Johnson. How she knew was a mystery. Accompanied by a 24-raft flotilla of 60 newsmen, her own twelve-man entourage, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, she floated (with paddle) down eleven miles of the shallow Rio Grande in Texas' Big Bend National Park to dramatize her beautify-and see-the-U.S.A. campaigns. Everything came off more or less swimmingly as the ladybird watchers went over the side in search of closeups or simply fell off, like the stretch-pantsed newswoman who jammed her parasol at a ranger...
...Bend had not seen such commotion since Pancho Villa tromped over the border in 1916, and it was hardly prepared for the crush. Extra telephone lines and fast-transmission Telex machines were jammed into ranger headquarters at Panther Junction to handle press copy, and a car stood ready to rush outgoing material to the airstrip 120 miles away. For Lady Bird's five-hour raft journey through the wild gorges of the Rio Grande, rangers had floated box lunches, soft drinks and coffee, and portable toilets to the sand bar where the party was to stop for lunch...