Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another suspect side of family-values mongering: Why are so many conservatives, champions of individual freedom, so hell-bent on coercing people to march in lockstep? Why does the authoritarian impulse win out over the libertarian...
...delegate from California, took time out from convention proceedings to recall his brief fling with the Democrats. He met Jimmy Carter in 1976 while serving as the pastor of a Charismatic church in Anaheim. "He was the first professing evangelical Christian ((candidate)) in my time," Sheldon said. "His religious bent seemed to rise above the campaign." So Sheldon switched parties and became a Democrat, introduced Carter to other ministers and attended a White House reception when Carter took office. A disillusioned Sheldon soon rejoined the G.O.P. however, because "I could not support an Administration that had the facade of evangelical...
Finally, all the talk about the Serb forces controlling the hilltops like latter-day Chetniks implies an invidious comparison between what the Nazis were trying to do in the 1940s and what the United Nations ought to be doing today. Hitler was bent on conquering Yugoslavia, while the West should be saving the remnants of that country from the consequences of the end of communism...
...most parks; the Toronto Blue Jays mint $35 million a year from leasing Skyboxes -- more dens for the haves to entertain the other haves. Someday a town might build a stadium consisting of a thousand skyboxes and six rows of bleachers. It would suit the owners -- men who seem bent on making baseball a pursuit to follow on TV -- if you can get cable and pay-per-view...
...doing it to protect people." They have conjured up a phantom Islamic jihad from which they are saving Europe. ( "This is not a civil war," insists Prijedor police chief Drljaca. "It's a religious war." The operative lie is that Bosnia's Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, is bent on creating a Muslim fundamentalist state. Never mind that Bosnia's Muslims are not fundamentalist, indeed are among the more secular followers of the Prophet Muhammad. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who shares the Serb ambition to carve up Bosnia, parrots the charge that "there are tendencies to create an Islamic state." Serbs...