Word: intention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...donor, however, stated that his intent had been purposeful. "It is only the individual who styles himself as one of a 'cultural elite,'" he commented, who claims to be able to discriminate to the finest degree the 'good' from the 'bad' that can take offense. Here the scholar-as-collector reveals the fact that his financial and social interests in painting have surpassed his artistic...
...eyes," stated Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government and research associate in the Russian Research Center. He called the Soviets' use of troops "a facade to hide their real motive of trying to stop the exit of refugees from East Germany." Brzezinski claimed, "The Russians have no intent of war," but instead are forcing recognition of their satellites...
...migrate to Florida and defeat it, by the simple expedient of driving to the middle of a highway that has not been officially opened and therefore does not officially exist. As successful squatters, living on fish and cunning, the Kwimpers hold off waves of governmental agents, sociologists and gangsters intent on civilizing them. Writers have loved such types, from Shakespeare's Nym, Pistol and Bardolph, who defied Elizabethan order, to Hasek's Good Soldier Schweik, whose peasant idiocy proved smarter than the Austro-Hungarian monarchy...
...Communist Party's 21st Congress in Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev pleaded for a "thaw" in the cold war based upon mutual good faith. The evidence of good faith, by his standards, was his invitation to President Eisenhower to visit the U.S.S.R. The evidence of his true intent was his attack on U.S. leaders as "merchants of death," his warning to U.S. allies that they are making their countries potential Russian targets by harboring U.S. bases. The point was made doubly clear by the boast of Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S.S.R. missiles could strike anywhere...
Myra Saft, vice-president of the Student Council, last night issued the Council's statement, which said the group "supports the intent of the demonstration" and "protests and opposes" increasing tuition after the administration had promised to consult the student body before doing...