Word: hell-bent
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...other theme is Red "peace"; it portrays the same aggressors miraculously risen from the dust, intact and blood thirsty, hell-bent for more and bigger wars - while the Communist bloc, pure of heart and with malice toward none, waves the olive branch...
...this terrible story presents a comparison with the state of the world today. The boy represents the despair and disillusionment so many feel in these times; the rabble below are the hell-bent millions who care for nothing but themselves and their pleasure; and the waitress and priest, and others who tried to save him, represent the feeble yet victorious forces of Christian principles...
...high point of his trip, although the hospitality was just beginning. The two most militant of his oilmen hosts, crag-faced Republican Hugh Roy Cullen (who hoped MacArthur would run for President) and Glenn McCarthy (who was hell-bent on publicizing his Shamrock Hotel), had been jockeying for weeks for first place in the MacArthur limelight. Houston's Mayor Oscar Holcombe had diplomatically made each chairman of a welcoming committee; between them they had toiled as if they anticipated the second coming of Sam Houston...
...their candidates on the ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
Never before had the French Communists appeared so defiant, so malicious, so isolated and so hell-bent for chaos. There was symptomatic violence in the Assembly chamber, and real violence, bloody, ugly and portentous, in the streets...