Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must also move to resolve the root causes of conflict between Arabs and Israelis." He identified the most troublesome root as being the "homelessness of the Palestinian people," coupled with Israeli fear that fulfilling their demands for a homeland would give birth to a contiguous, Soviet-dominated terrorist nation bent on destruction of the Jewish state. Said Reagan: "The question now is how to reconcile Israel's legitimate security concerns with the legitimate rights of the Palestinians...
White had always had a political bent: conservative and unabashedly patriotic...
...week's end no one knew if investigators' hopes would be fulfilled. "Billy Masselli may be hell-bent for revenge," says one official. "It's a question of whether he'll take it on the street or whether he'll even the score by telling the special prosecutor everything he knows...
...totally at the mercy of his new wife Caryn, a dexterous Texas tart who has decided that she wants nothing less from Bubber than the most dazzling collection of Renaissance art left in private hands. Unfortunately, the pictures are not for sale. In addition, the dying man is hell-bent on getting even with a half-sister who once cheated him and a Senator who once humiliated him on TV. Gudge's revenge involves a vast investment swindle that will administer America (in the author's words) "a convulsive, purifying shock at the core of its folly...
...Wazzan, who had been serving as an intermediary between the P.L.O. and the American negotiators, declared that he could no longer continue to participate while his "beloved Beirut" was being bombarded. With tears of outrage in his eyes, the Prime Minister told Habib that if the Israelis were bent on destroying Beirut and its people, "then let them kill us all now and get it over with, and let you and the U.S. bear the consequences." Wazzan's performance was both heartfelt and effective. So was the telephone call that P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made that day to Saudi...