Word: bents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although Jack Kennedy (my namesake) and I are Catholics, he cannot have my vote I believe Mr. Kennedy placed his political ambitions above principle in accepting the Democrats' platform, concocted, in most part, by radicals bent on bankrupting the Government, enslaving our citizens and destroying our American way of life...
...raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are justified by ex-President Harry Truman on the ground that "it was my responsibility to force the Japanese warlords to come to terms as quickly as possible with the minimum loss of lives." Most U.S. military men, bent on unconditional surrender, backed him up. Last week the old question got a new airing in the wake of a report by Cowles newspaper Correspondents Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey, who were permitted to read still-secret State Department records of the Potsdam Conference while preparing a book about the Abomb. Their key points...
...Peter's and longtime friend of Pope Pius XII, died last year, he left his entire estate (more than $25,000) to his nephews. "No one criticized him for this,'' said a Vatican official; but the official spoke too soon. Last week, Italian Catholic magazines, bent on underscoring every priest's debt to his church-even in death-stirred up a ticklish controversy...
Vividly aware that many angry Midwestern farmers blame Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for the 30% shrinkage in farm income during the past eight years, Richard Nixon is bent on plowing Benson under. Nixon got an assist from Benson himself, who before the Republican Convention announced his preference for Rockefeller. Fortnight ago Nixon declared that it was "essential" to break away from Benson's policies, called for "a massive program which is not concerned with budgetary costs year by year...
...about an operatic misdemeanor, the crowd had a change of heart and began to chant: "We forgive you, Stella." Urgently prompted by the management, the soprano finally returned to the stage, supported by Baritone Giangiacomo Guelfi. Slowly advancing to the footlights, she knelt, gazed beseechingly at her public and bent forward until her forehead touched the stage. "Forgive me," said she in a squeaky voice. "I've been feeling poorly all day." The audience gave a cheer, and the opera went on, with Stella prudently transposing her highest notes down one octave. "Poor girl," said one fan. "I wouldn...