Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whatever came their way Nov. 5. Nixon was determined not only to win, but to win big so that he could govern with a clear mandate. There was probably not even a notion of what he would do should he lose; law would certainly seem dull. Just as bent on victory -and apparently convinced it is in his grasp-Humphrey would no doubt be better prepared psychologically for defeat at this juncture and would work for the next four years to unite the party...
...whole apparatus, bent on hitting a golf ball smartly, tips and convolutes and lunges, the Japanese admirals clutching each other for support in the main control center up in the head as the structure rocks and creaks. And when the golf shot is on its way the navymen get to their feet and peer out through the eyes and report: 'A shank! A shank! My God, we've hit another shank...
...Lion in Winter--Pretension unleashed, most notably that of Anthony Harvey, the director, who seems bent on doing everything as conspicuously as he can. Neither Peter O'Toole nor Katharine Hepburn gives much of a performance in this cumbersomely filmed version of James Goldman's play, which was unconvincing to start with. At the PARIS CINEMA, 841 Boylston...
...scrupulous about the means. He has been a devoted advocate of Negro rights in the past. Now he appears bent on exploiting the anti-Semitism which undoubtedly exists among Negroes in Ocean Hill in order to rouse the city's Jewish population against decentralization. His propaganda campaign against decentralization has cost the already strapped U.F.T. $200.-000. The union distributed handbills repeating some of the most scurrilous anti-white and anti-Semitic statements to come from the black community, "Cut out, stay out, stay off, shut up. get off our backs," reads one, "or your relatives in the Middle...
...Aztecs kept their gold has Mexico been invaded by such a determined band of treasure hunters as the U.S. Olympic team. "The greatest competitive Olympics in history," as U.S. Track Coach Payton Jordan called them, proved to be a showcase for the multifarious talents of an inspired U.S. squad bent on cornering all the gold in Mexico City-and the silver and bronze as well. The medal score told the story: by week's end, with only a handful of events still to go, the U.S. had collected 42 gold, 26 silver and 30 bronze for a total...