Word: hell-bent
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...hope that the university will provide a pastoral, protective, quiet educational retreat for their offspring before the latter meet the cruel, cold world," he told the faculty recently, "but the present university-student generation does not look to me like a generation of lost and bewildered sheep; they seem hell-bent to take on not only the complexities of the university but also of the universe." The dissident students, he contends, "are not really running away from us. They are not proposing to expel the faculty. It is rather that they want the faculty to converse more with them about...
...grace as she zigzags through the slalom gates, rarely even brushing the marker poles. Bah, snorts Marielle. "Skiing beautifully is an unimportant matter"-and she attacks a slalom course like a fullback, flailing furiously with her poles, bowling over the gates, diving headlong across the finish line. Her hell-bent style has its disadvantages: Marielle has broken her left leg three times-while Christine has never broken a bone. But slow down? Never. "Sometimes, after I have skied particularly well, I think that I am not capable of going any faster," Marielle says. "Then, a few days later...
...BURMA: hell-bent on "socialism" and chaos at home, "neutralism" abroad, a situation made more ominous by an 850-mile common frontier with China...
...years with Lyndon as Congressman, Senator, Senate majority leader, Vice President and President have been rugged, sometimes lonesome, always at a hell-bent pace. Lady Bird suffered through four miscarriages and faithfully nursed Lyndon back to sleek and robust health after a near-fatal heart attack in 1955. She has efficiently managed the family finances over the years, and proved that she had much of old Cap Taylor's business savvy when she bought and, with Lyndon's help, nurtured a floundering Austin radio station into a multimillion-dollar corporation. "She can read a balance sheet as well...
...warned that the Democratic Administration was hell-bent on turning the individual states into "50 pigeonholes in a new Washington bureau," promised to work for a balanced budget instead of "digging us deeper into the red," poked fun at Defense Secretary McNamara's frequent inspection trips to South Viet Nam (five so far) by calling him "YoYo McNamara." On civil rights, Goldwater compared the Democratic Administration to "a cheerleader for a frightful game of violence, destruction and disobedience," drew enthusiastic applause when he cried: "You can't pass a law that will make me like...