Word: hell-bent
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...spots, largely owing to lack of rehearsal time and uncertain acoustics in the new house, hurt the performances. But Actor Robards, with his long, brooding spade-jawed scowl, was almost always convincing as the man of honor changing slowly into an unwilling miscreant and finally into a ruthless, sneering, hell-bent King. Outstanding moments: his bloody babbling after Macbeth murders Duncan ("Macbeth does murder sleep"), the "Tomorrow and tomorrow" speech as he holds his dead wife in his arms. Actress McKenna made her Lady Macbeth warm and feminine ("I feel people should have compassion for the sinners of the world...
...would never be Prime Minister. That left the left-wingers without a head but still capable of making a lot of noise. With the help of the stolid old trade-union wheel-horses who are the strength of the party, Gaitskell skillfully headed off the more headlong Socialist chargers. Hell-bent for equality, they wanted to abolish British public (i.e., private) schools, such as his own posh Winchester. They were beaten (see EDUCATION...
...dismal for Democrats. Just before Knight's move, Democratic Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown had announced his candidacy for governor, betting heavily on the fact of a Republican-splitting Knight-Knowland contest. His bet lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind of fight anyone could expect from Republican Bill...
Premier Menderes dismissed the outcries of the opposition, insisted that the increased size of the opposition "won't slow us down at all" in his hell-bent modernization of Turkey's creaky economy. "Turkey cannot remain underdeveloped," he declared. "She must have a strong national army, and we must be able to maintain it within our own resources. We Turks are surrounded by dangers. It means nothing less than our national existence...
...went hell-bent for Governor Kent...