Word: intendment
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...general, we Lakota (Sioux) are learning to conform to the customs of our white brothers and sisters. There is one custom that we do not intend to conform to-bathing beauty contests. Even the poorest of our Lakota women manage to cover their nakedness. They do not make public display of their bare hide or their bathing habits...
Geneva. There is no sign that the Russians intend to concede a thing at Geneva, and he has concluded that Moscow wants to dominate West Berlin and prevent unification of Germany at all costs. What the Soviets fear most is a strong, united Germany and the possibility of a very strong China. Ike has seen nothing to indicate that the Russians really do want a summit conference, but they are using the summit to split the Western powers. Still, he is willing to go to the summit, provided that the foreign ministers' meeting shows some progress; he would...
Cold, Cold House. The victory was important because it ranged the traditionally pro-labor House committee against Big Labor, and held the line against a worthless substitute bill. But the committee bill itself was now out in the cold, cold House where most Republicans and conservative Democrats intend to try to toughen it in three principal areas...
...Fiddle on Top. Building a lightweight, sound-controlled rocket will not be easy. But Acoustica's engineers think that it is certainly possible. For a sound-making device, they intend to use a Levavasseur whistle that has no moving parts and can be made of heat-resistant material. The rocketeers figure that the best frequency to use is 10,000 cycles, about the pitch of a very high violin note. Yet the volume of sound must be well above the loudest fiddle; an ear-shattering 170 decibels, which is 100 times the sound pressure of a supersonic boom from...
...Baptist, noting that Patterson did not speak for a majority of Alabamans, pronounced Kennedy hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy. And the Methodist Christian Advocate, official mouthpiece of Alabama's Methodists, denounced Patterson, conceded that Kennedy was a good man but that "the people of Alabama ... do not intend to jeopardize their democratic liberties by opening the doors of the White House to the political machinations of a determined, power-hungry Romanist hierarchy...