Word: intendment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uproar and kept it roaring? A large part of the answer is that Joe McCarthy in 1950 had hit a highly sensitive public nerve. When McCarthy first spoke up, Hiss, whose case Truman had called "a red herring," had just been convicted, and Acheson had declared: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss." The U.S. people had just begun to realize fully the malevolence of the enemy they faced. Abroad, the West had suffered a grievous setback in the loss of China to Communism...
...Whatever we're concentrating on," he continued, "we don't intend to tag too many cars near the College in a single night. We want to leave some students in class," he said...
Although the police intend to be lenient on weekend parking, they are anxious for students to get their cars "out of the way" at other times...
...Henry replied in kind:' "We are fighting militant Communism and we intend to finish it off." With calm assurance, he urged planters and tin miners to stay at their posts. He pleaded with Whitehall for more troops, built up the native army from four to six battalions, and launched a vast resettlement scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant...
...giant General Electric. In 1951's first half, when G.E.'s profits ($70.3 million) were down 9% in spite of a 34% gain in sales, Westinghouse not only managed to gain 28% in sales but rang up 16% more in profits ($31.5 million). But G.E. does not intend to let Price get too close. He had no sooner announced his expansion last week than G.E. announced a bigger one of its own: $450 million. Between the two, it looked as if the U.S. economy's horizons would go on rising...