He sat at the table reading a book, his back straight, his head bent as if in prayer.

NEWYORKER: Temporary

The brass conduct tours of the new, fortresslike headquarters in central Tokyo and even helped produce a movie, Aegis of the Doomed Country, in which a brave Japanese officer wrests control of his ship back from enemy agents bent on wrecking Tokyo.

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The brass conducts tours of the new, fortresslike headquarters in central Tokyo and even helped produce a movie, Aegis of the Doomed Country, in which a brave Japanese officer wrests control of his ship back from enemy agents bent on wrecking Tokyo.

FORBES: Matinee Maneuvers

After limbering up, he bent his knees slightly and leaned back gradually, pulling the car 15 feet.

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When I bent my legs and peered in, I could see his back, and the back of his head, and, across the table from him, my smiling radiant wife lifting her wineglass as if in acknowledgment of something he had said.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

On the palms of his hands and the tops of his feet were black, fleshy protuberances (not bloody holes, as in the paintings) that looked like nail heads, while on the opposite sides the tops of his hands and the soles of his feet there were protuberances resembling nail points, but bent back, in a curve.

NEWYORKER: Rich Man, Poor Man