Word: hell-bent
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...grain markets hell-bent for calamity? Last week it looked as if they were performing the same speculative shenanigans that preceded cotton's October crash (TIME...
...jesting. . . . Our politicians from the President on down have demonstrated their complete inability to cope with present-day problems. Men of science are still putting their heads together to develop weapons of destruction instead of methods of construction. And our labor leaders . . . are heading hell-bent for election in their common enterprise to kill the goose that laid the golden...
...Report. Luckily for the ultra-physicists, the U.S. Army, hell-bent for high-altitude guided missiles, was cooperating. Last week the Army told good news. A German V-2 rocket, roaring 100 miles above New Mexico, had carried elaborate instruments to the realm of the cosmic rays. Twenty miles up, the effect of the rays was 300 times as strong as on the earth; 20 miles higher it fell off again...
...later meeting of the New York chapter, Win the Peace seemed hell-bent on highballing down the Communist Party line. In a strong Russian accent, delegates clamored for destruction of all atom bombs, repudiation of the Baruch report, acceptance of the Soviet plan for "outlawing" atomic war. Scrupulously avoiding mention of Russian occupation armies, they demanded withdrawal of U.S. and British forces from Palestine, China, the Philippines and Greece...
...earnestly wanted peace. It had gone hell-bent into peacetime. It had dissipated its military power, despite its Chief of Staff's warning: "We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness. This course has failed us utterly, cost us millions of lives and billions of treasure...