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Modern Nepalese history really begins with the arrival of a dynamic leader bent on unifying the country.
The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.
The term fit up was, as far as I can ascertain, coined by the novelist G.F. Newman in his story of a bent detective, Sir, You Bastard , but it is the one that has caught on, at the expense of the real police term.
As the Clubhouse Monitor at Bent Tree Apartments, he now provides customer service for 50 to 60 tenants each night.
In India, the Hindu devoted an editorial Monday to the TV coverage of the 106 th birthday celebrations of two Japanese twin sisters, who, it said, are doing well and enjoying themselves "despite their bent backs and wizened faces."