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Kerkerking bent over in immediate regret, as the Dodgers came pouring out of the dugout to mob Pages near first base.

As the Fitz bent, it also broke records, setting marks for total annual tonnage as well as the biggest individual cargoes on the Great Lakes.

During the following decades, exhibitions often revealed a tug-of-war between opposing sensibilities—fissures perhaps unavoidable in a contentious democracy’s national museums—but in this century, a particular ideological bent has become dominant.

Bangladesh made impressive economic gains on Ms. Hasina’s watch, but many of her compatriots came to see her as a corrupt autocrat bent on holding power at any cost.

The chimp took a twig, bent and stripped it of its leaves, then he poked it into a termite's nest.