Word: bents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...neither Britain's nor the rest of Europe's fuel troubles are over. Tanker trucks may be rolling again to London, but identical protests, which actually began in France a week before, spread into Germany and Spain, the Low Countries, Greece and Ireland. Europeans were bent on telling their governments they had had enough of paying the world's highest prices at the pump. Now their stunned leaders must find an acceptable reply...
...reason. More than most other big-time politicians, he has an unshakable belief in his manifest destiny. His special purpose is to save the world (from global warming, mean-spirited Republicans, what have you). And this faintly messianic mission is joined at the hip with his scientific bent. His old friend and chief strategist Carter Eskew calls him a "futurist populist: he has a rare ability to see issues in the future and gauge how they'll impact people...
...wanted to spoil this party. As Jerry Falwell put it, if delegates would only count their blessings--the platform, the selection of Cheney--and "keep their mouths shut until their guy was in the White House," the infidels would be vanquished. In fact, party activists, once bent on cutting school breakfasts and midnight basketball, actually applauded Powell--who actually wore a white shirt. He chastised those who "miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped a few thousand black kids get an education" but hardly utter "a whimper when it's affirmative action for lobbyists...
...Womack has such a hit in I Hope You Dance, which has spent most of the summer as the No. 1 country single. A sort of 12-step program in verse ("Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter/When you come close to selling out, reconsider"), this ballad by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers gets a luscious setting, with Womack crooning it like a lullaby to a sad child. The song is sweet and swell, but it's not all that's special about the Jacksonville, Texas, singer...
...relationship with F.D.R. was typical. He first opposed the Democrat, then supported him (partly owing to F.D.R.'s elaborate and cynical courtship). But when the New Deal began to cut against big financial interests, Hearst accused Roosevelt of being a communist agent. Throughout his career, Hearst bent his media outlets' coverage to suit his political or financial ends...