Word: bende
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...kind of courage which refuses to bandage in front of the firing squad. The driving urge which made men die rather than surrender to Everest, or perish in the white wastes of the Antarctic while trying to bend the very Pole to their driving will...
...rookie Al came to bat 28 times, hit a commendable .250. Even such rival sluggers as the Red Sox's Ted Williams spotted his promise and helped him polish up his stickwork. "Ted showed me how to bend my back a little and go down after a low pitch," Al remembers now. "Then he told me something else which I think helped me even more. He told me how to keep in condition during the off season, by swinging heavy bats and keeping a rubber ball in my pocket to exercise my grip...
...first practical proof of Einstein's new cosmic concepts came in 1919, when measurements of the sun's eclipse proved that light rays bend around solid objects, as Einstein's theory postulated. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921. Bertrand Russell wrote: "The theory of relativity is probably the greatest synthetic achievement of the human intellect up to the present time. It sums up the mathematical and physical labors of more than 2,000 years. Pure geometry, from Pythagoras to Riemann, the dynamics and astronomy of Galileo and Newton, the theory of electro-magnetism as it resulted...
...quit so well. Richard Chaffee confused too often the sophisticated evil of the Duke with the organic writhings of a monster. Ruth Emerson, as his niece, the Princess Saralinda, contrasted warmth and serenity with the Duke's icy fingers nicely when she first came on. But she did not bend as Thurber expanded her into the floating symbol of molested maidens...
...attractively British English that she learned at an Irish convent in Rangoon. Her role in the movie (her first) is largely therapeutic. A crack fighter pilot (Gregory Peck) seems determined to crash his plane and kill himself in a foolhardy maneuver against the Japanese. He has gone "round the bend" since his bride was killed on their wedding night. But once he meets Win, he realizes that "it is no good to die inside," and proves his will to live after a crash landing. Unfortunately, the tired script and plodding direction need even more than brilliance a thousandfold...