Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reforms. So United Fruit called on its many friends in Washington--including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen, director of the CIA--to take action. Thanks to an impressive public relations campaign, the company managed to paint Arbenz as an anti-U.S. communist bent on driving United Fruit out of Guatemala. The CIA. fresh from its success in Iran where it had overthrown Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadegh, was only to eager to help United Fruit in its time of need...
...left lyre behind and began seeing Palestinian troops again, lunching in the shade. Shortly thereafter, we stopped. "This is it," said the P.L.O. official who was acting as our guide. It did not look like much: a simple, hutlike shelter such as shepherds use. Guards watched as we bent to pass through the door. Stairs led down several levels to a vast underground complex with thick, reinforced-concrete walls...
While few critics dispute Roche Dinkeloo's technical ingenuity and aesthetic daring, some charge the firm with a bent for a dehumanizing bigness. Some of its glassy towers-the Worcester (Mass.) County National Bank, for instance-loom large indeed. But while many big new buildings, in the name of progress, merely take, Roche's buildings give-pleasant plazas or little parks and improved working conditions. Union Carbide's complex is only four stories high. Conoco, near Houston, consists of three-story buildings clustered around an artificial lake. General Foods, in Rye, N.Y., in harmony with surrounding residential...
...lifestyle. Lee the dirty, ill-spoken, scowling failure babbles with gleeful sarcasm about his imaginary residence in Palm Springs, his love of gold, his familiarity with Hollywood's Bob Hope Drive. But when Kimmer indicates interest in Lee's idea for a Western, the misanthropic scoundrel becomes bell bent on scoring a success in the movie world...
DOES HOAGLAND have that elusive bent of mind. The answer which rises out of The Tugman's Passage is a very qualified yes. Hoagland has a small measure of that extraordinarily rare common sense... the kind which seems so utterly obvious once we have encountered it and cannot image the ignorance we bore earlier--which one senses in Thoreau, Orwell, and occasionally, E B White Hence. Hoagland's best stuff in The Tugman's Passage, the two essays "The Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife Thrower" and "Women and Men," sparkle...