Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reporters have not been able to get into the region to verify these reports, but many accounts from witnesses on the scene suggest that the government is bent on crushing relief operations. On Dec. 21 a plane carrying volunteers from a French medical-relief organization was shot down, and three French medics and a Sudanese relief worker were killed. Since then, the French organization has temporarily recalled two of its teams from the area...
...Vilnius the dignified statesman, expecting to rely on his charm and diplomatic skills to work out a compromise. But when the first cry of Samostoyatelnost! -- independence -- sounded from the Lithuanian crowd, Mikhail Gorbachev rapidly abandoned the strategies of genteel diplomacy and adopted the tactics of a ward politician bent on maintaining his lock on a balking constituency. "Independence?" he shouted above the insistent cries. "Let's have it. At the workplace. In cities. Republics. But together...
...both as a title and as a concept. While Jong claims that the book "has as its theme a woman's search for a way out of addictive love and toward real selflove," the protagonist continues to flip back and forth between emotional and physical addiction, with a clear bent towards the physical...
...widely read book, How Democracies Perish. It began: "Democracy may, after all, turn out to have been a historical accident, a brief parenthesis that is closing before our eyes . . . It will have lasted a little over two centuries, to judge by the speed of growth of the forces bent on its destruction." Principal among those superior hostile forces was world communism...
...Bucharest, Ceausescu appeared before a contrived propaganda rally outside the presidential palace. Thousands of workers had been assembled to applaud and wave flags on cue as he called for unity and tried to blame the riots on Hungarian "revanchists" bent on recapturing Transylvania. His rasping voice was rising to a shout when the crowd suddenly drowned him out with boos, jeers and demands for the truth about Timisoara. Visibly astonished by this face-to- face encounter with rebellion, Ceausescu froze. He quickly ended the rally and darted into the palace...