Word: hell-bent
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...having a miserable time. Night after night, as they troop into the hugely nondescript Boston Garden, they find nothing to grouse about. Reason: the Boston Celtics are bouncing along toward the National Basketball Association title, and the Boston Bruins, after seven seasons of mediocrity or worse, are skating hell-bent for the National Hockey League championship...
...once, the Detroit River came alive. Flippant rooster tails of spray arced high as six hopped-up speedboats zippered the straightaway and skittered hell-bent for trouble toward the first turn of the Gold Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes. The last heat boiled into a catfight between two river belles-Miss Thrijtway, a neat cream, orange and white number from Seattle, and Miss Pepsi, a Detroit brawler all tricked out in red, white and blue...
...Learned, by an action of the House Interior Committee, that the Democrats are hell-bent on using Hell's Canyon to dramatize charges of an Administration natural-resources "giveaway" in the fall campaigns. The committee, following a similar move by its Senate sister, voted 15-13 to clear for House action a bill to build a $600 million federal high dam in Hell's Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Co., which the Federal Power Commission licensed last August to build three small dams in the area for an estimated $250 million...
...Such hell-bent base running-something of a rarity among pampered pitchers who figure that their only work waits for them on the mound-is typical of Roberts' attitude toward baseball. He loves every minute of the game. He is a better-than-average fielder, can knock down the line drives that whistle back from the batter's box, moves fast and surely to field bunts. Despite his dainty, mincing style at the plate, he is a competent (.250) switch-hitter. "I'm happy as can be out there," he says. "I enjoy all of it-fielding...
...grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod in the fourth lap, the pack got handlebars tangled, and 25 riders dived into a mass pratfall. Shortly afterwards an East German cyclist soared off the road into a river. The Communists proudly emphasized that on-the-spot first aid was better than at any other international bike...