Word: hellbent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much opportunity to achieve greatness by what you don't do as by what you do." Like many another Senator and Representative home on recess, Bob Kerr had tested political currents and come away with a spine-tingling shock. Around the nation at all levels people were hellbent on economy-and on not much congressional action beyond that. One senior Senator summed up his constituents' advice in seven succinct words: "Cut that budget and come on home...
...spent with a sense of responsibility by Congressmen and their staffs educating themselves. But there are some who ride the Uncle-pays plan like a gravy train. Last week, in offices scattered all over the world. U.S. diplomatic and information officials were recounting a nightmarish story of two such hellbent freeloaders, both staff members of the Senate Appropriations Committee. They are Grace Johnson, fiftyish, tough-talking, weight-throwing $10,000-a-year staffer and longtime friend of Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender; and her companion, Mississippi-born Mary Frances Holloway, fortyish, an assistant committee clerk. Twice...
What in heaven's name is happening to this country? Is every editor and everybody-not excluding McCarthy's nonstop idiocies and Eisenhower's latest fiasco in the tactless gift of a pistol to General Naguib-all hellbent on the suicidal lunacy of showing just how cheap and silly...
...Constellation landed. Out stepped W. Averell Harriman (see box) and his wife. The four men, antagonists in the great oil dispute which threatens Western Europe's oil and the world's peace, pressed forward to greet him: Iran's Foreign Minister Bagher Kazemi, representing a government hellbent on nationalizing oil; U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady, who had tried his hardest to mediate, failed, and was quitting (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); Norman Richard Seddon, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's harassed chief representative in Iran; and British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd, who first said Harriman's mission...