Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minister of Interior from 1948 to 1958, Donges pushed through South Africa's Parliament the harsh dogmas of apartheid-absolute racial partition, mandatory identification papers for all blacks, no mixed marriages, and no voting rights for persons of mixed blood-then, as Finance Minister from 1958 to 1966, bent himself to the more creditable task of successfully building a vigorous, stable economy for his gold-rich country. His real ambition was to be Prime Minister, but he finally settled for the largely ceremonial office of President, only to suffer a stroke 20 days before his scheduled inauguration last...
Stephens attributes the importance of the presidency of the club--and the existence of the Machine built around it--to more than political opportunism. He explains, "The image people have of the club is identified with its president. His ideological bent is assumed to be club policy...
...snarling laureate of Negro revolt, has distilled his rage against white America in poems and plays whose spectrum has room only for black. "The Black Artist must teach the White Eyes their deaths," Jones writes. And when Newark, his birthplace, was aflame with Negro rioting last July, Jones appeared bent on augmenting his words with action. Heading into the eye of the violence, police testified, Jones had concealed a brace of pearl-handled .32-cal. revolvers beneath the dashboard of his green camper bus and under the folds of his multihued African dashike tunic...
Dolores Stewart, 33, of Cambridge, and Donna Happel, 22, of Boston, both working inside the lab when the explosion occurred, were treated for burns at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Now at Stillman Infirmary, they were unavailable for comment, but hospital spokesmen said they were "fairly comfortable" and "doing well...
...away convinced that he had "a firm grasp of the situation. I had the background and knowledge to dig in and penetrate the situations and get at the facts that I wanted to know." A somewhat different appraisal came from one top U.S. official in Saigon: "The Governor seemed bent on some kind of political kamikaze or, better said, hara-kiri...