Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to carry out the Calcutta plan by stepping into a power vacuum created by the deadlock between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Muso made his intent fairly clear. In a speech in Madiun ten days before seizing the city, he declared: "For three years our government has licked the boots of the Americans, with the result that the Americans are still supporting the Dutch . . . Up to this moment this policy continues. We have got to fight...
...wartime underground he teamed with the Communists, went to Moscow, and returned as Socialist Premier in the Moscow-created provisional government. To repay the Reds he hatched an inept, ill-timed and abortive plot to merge his Socialists with the Communists. His blundering displeased the Communists; his intent angered the Socialists. Osubka-Morawski was demoted from Premier to the rank of Minister of Public Administration. Communist displeasure deepened when he snatched a choice government apartment coveted by Secret Police Boss Stanislaw Radkiewicz...
Next day, stoutly denying any intent of censorship, CBS officials mumbled about "technical difficulties." Gypsy's sudden departure from the screen was just "a very odd coincidence." Said Miss Lee: "It was nearly midnight. Surely the kiddies aren't watching at that hour...
...luxury to weigh events and suspend judgment. "It might not be far wrong to say that throughout the University the major portion of the efforts of the student is directed to studying problems or situations, not with the purpose of learning the 'right' answer, but with the avowed intent of evoking a critical attitude and stimulating imaginative thought...
...envoys went to call on Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The Russians had agreed "in principle" to lift the Berlin blockade; in practice, they refused to budge. It was obvious by now that the Russians were merely carrying on what T. S. Eliot once called "a tedious argument of insidious intent...