Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinista army, by contrast, is hell-bent on quashing the contras. Washington continues to warn that the Sandinistas may escalate the air war by introducing Soviet-built MiG jet fighters to the region, a circumstance that could provoke direct U.S. military action. U.S. intelligence reports show that about two dozen Nicaraguan pilots are currently receiving flight training in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria...
Once touched by the fire of the Del-Lords, a convert may have to hustle around a little in order to get a fix on the band. The group has not bent radio out of shape; in fact, its airwave appearances have been erratic. The Del-Lords' second album, Johnny Comes Marching Home, was released a few months back and made few of the conventional commercial tremors, even though it contains some of the year's best tunes. The songs range between social comment and personal tenderness, with a free-for-all finesse that should have brought the Del-Lords...
...Chinese tea, and a plate of roasted nuts and dried seaweed. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the two freaks with the yellow hair, and then one of the dancers took my hand and beckoned for me to dance with her. Holding hands, I copied her steps: dancing with bent knee, flexed feet and palms, the effect was of marionettes courting each other with jerky movements. Then, all of a sudden, I realized that my dancing partner wasn't a woman at all, he was just wearing what we think of as woman's makeup: eye shadow, lipstick and mascara...
Despite Iacocca's rejection of its overtures, the committee seems bent on continuing its quixotic mission. "He made his statement, and we take him at his word," said Committee Member Terrence O'Connell, a Washington political consultant. "Now we're going to go ahead and do what we said we would do." Never mind that a presidential draft has not succeeded in modern times. Never mind that the avenue presenting the fewest technical barriers for the campaign would be an awkward "national surrogate" strategy involving a stand-in who would go on the stump, presumably pressing palms and kissing babies...
...liberals are in reasonably good health. Powell, 78, and Blackmun, 77, are said to be a bit weary, yet neither has given any indication that he is ready to retire. Some court watchers say the elderly Justices are afraid the next Reagan appointee will have Scalia's ideological bent without his judicial skills and acumen. Though A.E.I.'s Fein contends that the Justices should be reassured that the White House has so far picked jurists of quality, Harvard's Tribe argues the opposite. "More likely," he says, "they feel that having made a nomination of such distinction, the President will...