Word: bende
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...system remains in an infantile state, like a telephone switchboard with crossed wires. Bombarded by sense impulses, he always gets the wrong number-brings the wrong muscles into play. Such children are victims of spastic paralysis. In walking, their toes scrape the ground, their legs cross in a scissors bend, and the touch of a finger may send them sprawling...
...ones from Libya, where the British took suspiciously long to put the finishing touches on surrounded Axis "remnants," which for a time seemed permanently on the verge of final destruction. They are also reminiscent of the old cowboy flickers which showed the rescue party speeding around the same bend in the road each time they were flashed on the screen...
...tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...
Back to clothes: everybody was wearing those lovely crinkly grey fiannel trousers effects, and I saw oodles of the smart new leather elbow patches. I suppose those boys have to bend their elbows...
...landed on both sides of the town and surrounded it, were French colonial troops from garrisons in Equatorial Africa, led by "criminal former officers." They had some bombers and made things hot for defenders under General Tenu, the colony's vice governor, who announced: "Nothing will make us bend our knee...