Word: intendment
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...benefit, "No business before the returning Congress will be more urgent than this: to enact the anti-inflation tax which I have sought for almost a year." But Mills and several Ways and Means colleagues are still deeply disturbed at the rate of Government spending, and they do not intend to move the tax surcharge bill out of committee until Johnson does more to cut federal spending...
...Johnson the sort of President who would be likely to yield a jot or tittle of his authority. "The people of this country did not elect me to this office to preside over its erosion," he once declared. "And I intend to turn over this office with all of its powers intact to the next man who sits in this chair...
...sets himself. Some guys lean back on their haunches, which means that they're either going to pull for a run or go back for a pass protection." Tackle Alex Karras of the N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions examines opponents' knuckles. If the knuckles are white, they intend to block forward and the play is a run; if the knuckles are pink, the play is probably a pass...
...composing three rock cantatas which he hopes to hear performed in Chicago coffeehouses and clubs, thinks that one solution lies in underplaying the formal aspects. "I think it is just as well if the public does not know my pieces are cantatas," he says. "I for one do not intend to tell them." Stuart believes another built-in guard against obscurity is the plain fact that "there just aren't enough people in the business who can do this sort of thing...
...L.B.J., he seemed less than panic-stricken. Whoever the Democratic candidate may be in 1968, said the President with supreme self-confidence, "I fully intend to support...