Word: bendere
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Hats, which had lately been, at worst, ridiculously appealing and, at best, downright becoming, threatened to go unattractively cockeyed again-"winged hats," "haloes on a bender," "Milans with tuzzy-muzzy topknots." But men were hardened to nonsensical headgear. What really dudgeoned them was the other extreme-shoes, which had become as hideous as anything in man's long-suffering memory: solid-heel-and-soled, club-footed dumpers, reminiscent of Clementine, the miner's daughter...
...protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers gleefully fire their huts. In one grand blood bath all the Abenakis are slaughtered. This, however, does not seem to solve the Indian problem. Hunger, fatigue, other Indians, do for Rogers' Rangers what the Abenakis cannot...
...Bolton has gone about her political career as quietly as she would order a dinner for eight. Three years ago, Congressman George H. Bender blasted away at "royalists of the Republican Party," and "pocketbook domination of its councils." Replied Mrs. Bolton: "None of us has any rights except those we earn." To Boss Bender, Mrs. Bolton is now an "ideal candidate...
After the Governor's daughter, Helen Troy Bender, whacked a bottle of champagne on one of the goal posts, 500 bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...
...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...