Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found out we were dealing with a very serious government, bent on a settlement," Gazit says. But he is quick to point out the lighter side of the difficulties. "The negotiations were in September and between the Moslem Sabbath on Fridays, and Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur falling on Sundays and Mondays that year, it made for amusing negotiations and necessitated and two consecutive 24-hour sessions," he says...
...Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law, said yesterday the memo was "not directed at the present process, but looks to the future." Bok has "bent over backwards to consult with faculty," and "we trust him," he added...
...personal," and added that "even if he wins, it will be difficult for him to regain the support he needs to govern." Said an editorial in the Washington Post: "Jimmy Carter is campaigning like a politician gone haywire . . . Where is the President?" Commented the Boston Globe: "The President seems bent on discarding his last ace, his reputation as a decent and compassionate...
...What really interests him is an imagery that can only be termed timeless: the look of an army on the march, silhouetted against a setting sun or outlined against a placid shoreline or engaged in night battle on a ground as mysteriously dark as the midnight sky. The hell-bent arrival of a messenger in a besieging army's encampment, or in a peaceful palace courtyard, becomes a little epiphany on the frantic nature, and perhaps the absurdity, of the world of affairs...
...there was Oveta Culp Hobby who, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1955, explained the shortage of the new Salk polio vaccine: "No one could have foreseen its great acclaim." And there is always Richard Nixon, the apostle of perfect clarity, who at times has seemed hell-bent on clarifying himself out of existence...