Word: intendment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusting off an old (1921) antilabor state law forbidding restraint of trade, a grand jury voted indictment of 115 of the city's Negro leaders-including a score of Negro ministers. "In this state," the indictment read, "we are committed to segregation by custom and by law; we intend to maintain it." Arrested on George Washington's birthday, one of the Negro ministers responded: "The Negroes are not on trial here, but Montgomery is on trial. The eyes of the world are focused here...
...Scott (255 pp.; Dutton; $3.50), is a seaworthy adventure novel with probably the most ingeniously constructed plot in the whole castaways-on-a-raft class. The story starts with a series of cryptic messages in the agony column of a London newspaper. The key message: "Sea-Wyf: Intend to find you by publishing story of 14 weeks and Number Four. Biscuit...
...Andrew W. Contratto, physician to the Hygiene Department, explained that is impossible to provide care for women patients identical to that for men, and said, "We intend to use the Infirmary only for short-term diseases for women, and then only in unusual circumstances...
...never stated that all personnel on its major shows will have to be graduates of the training program we intend to institute next fall; we simply assume that, with some exceptions, these graduates will be better qualified.... Persons who want to ignore our standards will be perfectly free to do so, but not on HDC time...
...gates and let in the huge crowd. Still wearing his sash, he mixed with the milling, chattering visitors. He slapped backs, grasped hands, whisked children up in his arms to buss their cheeks. Then, unaided by any microphone, he made a brief, unscheduled speech from the veranda. "I intend to work for order, justice and the welfare of the people." he said. "We are with you, Juscelino!" somebody shouted, and the crowd thundered agreement...