Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day she was even better in the hell-bent downhill, daringly shaving her final turn to finish in a time of 1:57.1 that seemed good enough to win. But while chatting confidently with newsmen, Penny learned that it was not that easy: an unknown Austrian 16-year-old named Traudl Hecher had snatched away first place with...
Even before he became an Anglican priest and took the chaplaincy of Trinity College, Oxford (1912), Knox was a "Romanizer." He was attracted to the rituals, vestments, "Mariolatrous hymns" and incense that his father among others was bent on stamping out. As a family joke Ronald once scented his father's private chapel with incense. Wrote Knox: "I can't feel that the Church of England is an ultimate solution...
...Dave McDonald to a secret meeting with President Eisenhower at the White House. McDonald apparently convinced the President that management's terms were so tough that the union would have to go out on strike again when the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction ran out on Jan. 26. Bent on preventing a renewal of the strike, Ike summoned Vice President Nixon and Secretary Mitchell to the White House shortly before he left on his around-the-world tour, instructed them to push hard to get a settlement...
...bones of her right ear. While she worked on her last show, Sweet Love Remember'd, Maggie Sullavan was still sitting out the waiting period which would determine the operation's permanent success. Her plans for the future, insists Dr. Lempert, were not those of a woman bent on suicide. The very fact that she died with a script of Sweet Love Remember'd beside her suggests, says he, that she was still fighting against her deafness. "She was probably trying to memorize lines of the other characters so she wouldn't be caught missing...
...Bent on the quest for peace, the President is in a conciliatory mood on domestic issues, eager to avoid battles with the Democratic majorities in Congress. Despite the 116-day steel strike that was halted only by an 80-day Taft-Hartley in junction (due to run out late this month), the President had not decided on the need for additional labor legislation. Even with the $7 billion-a-year farm scandal confronting him as a conspicuous failure of his Administration, Ike was not planning to offer any bold new program for coping with it. "Let the Democrats come forward...