Word: bende
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...same moment, two other men, both very short and both looking a little cold, emerged from the crowd, carrying small but ominous-looking instruments held out before them. One was wearing earphones. They stood off by themselves until the photographers discovered them and them they were told to bend over and point their instruments (one was a geiger counter) at the asphalt...
...just arrived--one who gave the appearance of being just under seven feet tall and who was said to be the mayor, and another in a camel's-hair coat who said he was head of Civilian Defense--were also told by the photographers to bend over and look at the pavement. When that was done, one of the men with instruments was asked to test the shoes of the man in the camel's-hair coat for radioactivity. The latter obliged by sitting on the edge of his car seat, and crossing his legs out into the street...
...Washington. One morning, speeding along Riggs Road to the Congressional Airport for practice at flying a glider, Godfrey had a head-on collision with a truck. He lay in a strait-jacket of bandages and casts for five months. For two years he could not bend his knees. He still walks with a slight limp...
...that they can be delivered by stealth, set off without possibility of defense against them. Testifying before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee last week, Nobel Prizewinning Atomic Scientist Harold C. Urey described how the Russians might use the atomic bomb-even without setting it off-to bend the U.S. or its allies to its purposes...
...midst of the festivities, somebody remembered Mom. "This day, let us transfer ourselves to the suburbs of Tbilisi," wrote Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, "and with reverent sorrow and ardent gratitude in our hearts silently bend our heads over the sacred remains of a small, modest Georgian woman, the mother who 70 years ago gave the world him who became humanity's greatest man, our leader and father...