Word: hellbent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inverted pyramid, all pacifist literature rests upon a single point: as W. H. Auden put it, "We must love one another or die." In How I Won the War, Director Richard Lestersharpens the point pictorially but blunts it philosophically by focusing on a platoon of World War II tommies hellbent on a suicide mission-building an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines in North Africa...
...year compared with 5.6 per worker in Germany and eleven per worker in the U.S. Oxford University's Allan Flanders, an industrial-relations expert, estimates that industry is 40% overstaffed. Sir Maurice Laing, president of the Confederation of British Industry, warns that the country appears to be "hellbent on industrial suicide...
Thus, with not a word spoken, Newman's game, rank and destination are established beyond doubt. He is hellbent for Bogart country, that raw, rich Big Sleep milieu; and this Warner Brothers revival of a grand old tradition gets him there in style. Based on Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target, and accelerated at a slick '60s pace by Director Jack Smight, Harper gives Newman his feistiest role since...
Even the ragtag New York Rangers refused to lie down. After handing the Hawks a third straight shutout in New York, they skated into Chicago hellbent on making it four. The 20,000 home-town fans who had sardinepacked themselves into the 17,100-capacity Chicago Stadium sat in mute agony as the Hawks fell behind 2-0. Hull could do nothing. Then in the third period, Chicago warmed the ice. And minutes later, with the score 2-1, the Rangers were penalized a man. It looked like Hull's chance. Up went an expectant, hopeful cheer...
...certainly set a new tone in New York City. He started off facing a double crisis that threatened to collapse the school system on opening day in September: civil righters were set to boycott schools in protest against de facto segregation, and the militant teachers' union was hellbent for a massive strike. Won over by Gross's tough minded sincerity, Negroes put off their boycott; softened by his ability to com promise, the teachers accepted a face-saving settlement...