Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1950s is remembered more for its sociology than for its politics. After a decade of depression and four years of war, the nation was hell-bent on normality. Neither the Korean conflict nor McCarthyism could distract Americans from their rush to claim a place in the rapidly expanding middle class. The standard rerun of the period features sincere men in gray flannel suits and contented women in kitchen aprons smiling at Mr. Clean. And why not? Coincidentally or not, he looked a lot like their amiable President, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...professors say, the possibility of research fraud is just another reality of scientific research, much like test tubes, gloves or laboratory notebooks. Researchers bent on deceiving their boss usually...
...flights for personal business. Sessions made himself look all the worse by publicly accusing his deputy, respected career officer Floyd Clarke, of plotting a coup. Sessions' wife Alice joined the fray. Last month she told a San Antonio newspaper that Clarke was among "10 to 12 people who are bent on" driving her husband from...
Despite his pragmatism, Riordan has a strong philosophical bent. A Jesuit- educated Irish Catholic reared in New Rochelle, New York, he studied under French philosopher Jacques Maritain at Princeton. Riordan still adorns his speech with quotations from St. Ignatius and G.K. Chesterton. He has a Midas touch as well. After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he moved to Los Angeles in 1956 and parlayed his $80,000 inheritance into a ) stock-market fortune. Today, after starting his own law firm and plunging into a 20-year succession of venture-capital deals, he is worth $100 million...
That brave repudiation of a regime bent on perpetuating white hegemony in South Africa earned Mandela a lifetime's incarceration, while his jailers pressed on with their megalomaniac construct called grand apartheid. At the same time, his stance just as surely launched South Africa on the road to democracy. Last week the country took an irreversible step forward when black and white political leaders declared that every citizen will be able to vote to choose the government. With that historic agreement, Mandela and South Africa's 28 million blacks will be able to savor the success of their freedom struggle...