Word: bente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...constitution is based on the old 1952 constitution and is cleverly written to conceal its authoritarian bent. One clause excludes from the Chamber of Deputies all men who don't possess a degree stating they've completed what would be a high school education in America. This will, of course, effectively exclude members of the lower and much of the middle class from being elected to the Chamber...
...said that the "very, very tiny group" was "bent on stopping the university." At the same time, he characterized the majority of radicals and members of SDS as "fine, upstanding students with great integrity who believe that the Vietnam war is a horrible mistake...
...defies Daley at his own peril. Said Stevenson: "In the Democratic convention, there was dissent and in it new hope for real change. But in Chicago, and in the Democratic party of Illinois that week, there was little room for dissent. Some 'revolutionaries' appeared on the scene, bent on provoking disorder, unwashed and for the most part unarmed. A small number of people sought to expose 'the system' and 'the system' became their unwitting ally...
Three archetypal murderers crisscross their dual pilgrimages, bent on savagely having waste the inhabitants of the primitive countryside. Irrational and unexplained, the murderers rise up like dream figures, as relentlessly hounding as the Furies. The country people become a Greek chorus, polarized between suspicion and curiosity, innate generosity and indifferent cruelty. McCarthy captures the intimate tonalities of their simple speech...
...Moscow accord. As the Czechoslovaks did, in fact, fulfill the first part of the demands, the Soviets reciprocated by withdrawing the remainder of their 275,000 troops* from the cities into bivouac areas in the suburbs and countryside. Many Czechoslovaks feared that no matter how much they bent to Soviet will, some Red Army units would remain in the country. That fear was buttressed by the fact that seven Soviet divisions already were digging in along the West German border and emplacing tactical missiles...