Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed, 55 to 0, a convention outlawing genocide, which was denned as actions "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." There were no abstentions...
Brown was arrested. Last week an all-white jury found him guilty of assault with intent to rape. Tampa's Judge Roy Amidon commented: "This is the most reprehensible case that ever came before me. It is much worse than if the races of the participants were reversed." He sentenced Brown to 20 years in the state penitentiary...
...begun as an ordinary "rag" (prank)-the sort that Cambridge students have been playing for centuries. Before the night was through, reported the Vice Chancellor, "undergraduates, in disorderly mobs, often several hundred strong, surged about the streets intent upon doing damage ... In Petty Cury they overturned and seriously damaged a car, regardless of the presence of a woman inside . . . On King's Parade, they damaged [another] car, crumpling its bonnet...
Quoting out of context is risky business, and in this particular case the speakers' original intent because twisted into an entirely different meaning. Bruce Harriman...
...seemed almost wholly concerned with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable attitudes (such as doing up a ballet shoe or 'pressing down an iron with both hands). They reminded one that the entire bodily mechanism...