Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...territory, Khrushchev this time might find himself not much more welcome. He would cry peace and disarmament, but has shown that he has about as much interest in reducing tensions and promoting world order as the Three Stooges. Dag Hammarskjold and Russia's fellow Security Council members, bent on quieting the Congo turmoil, had watched the Soviets stir the fires of chaos, make a grandstand play to Africans by labeling the U.N. a partner to a colonial conspiracy, and egg on the wild Lumumba (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...include a California geologist, an Ohio newspaper publisher, an Indiana livestock salesman, and a South Dakota Sioux Indian who is a Harvard Ph.D. and was an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs until he resigned to run for office. By and large they had a surprisingly strong conservative bent. In a representative cross section polled by a TIME correspondent, only a few chose to identify themselves as middle-of-the-roaders. A substantial majority arranged themselves solidly with Arizona's Barry Goldwater, guiding spirit of far-out G.O.P. conservatives...
...home of Ayatollah Mohammed Behbehani, Teheran's most powerful religious leader. In Ayatollah Mohammed's great walled garden, a white-turbaned mullah shouted over a microphone: "All elections must be canceled!" The crowd roared back: "We agree! We agree!'' White-robed and heavily bearded, bent by his 90 years, Ayatollah Mohammed shuffled slowly across the garden on the arms of two aides. "Shall we shut down the bazaar?'' shouted the crowd. "Wait." answered Ayatollah Mohammed...
Theologians through the ages have bent their brains on the nature and function of God the Father and God the Son. But the third person of the Christian Trinity has received relatively scant theological consideration. "With a few inconsequential exceptions," writes President Henry P. Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, "there has been hardly a period in the church's history, hardly a school of Christian theology, hardly an individual theologian who has given to the Holy Spirit the attention . . . merited...
Something for Nothing. Though every new scrap of evidence indicts Stalin as the villain of Potsdam, a share of blame seems to fall on a U.S. that, bent on victory, was too single-minded to set realistic conditions for Japan's surrender. In hindsight, acceptance of such conditions might have ended the war, buttressed Asia against the newly strengthened Communists and relieved the U.S. of the onus of having dropped the first atomic bombs-which the Communists have used as a powerful anti-U.S. propaganda point...