Word: intendment
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...real trouble was that miners, mindful of the "bad old days" when they went hungry for lack of work, were fearful that they might work themselves out of jobs if they dug too much coal. Said one observer: "They are their own bosses now, and intend to keep things the way they...
Frantically, Mendes men paged Noel to get him to restore his amendment. Noel had gone home. A government minister telephoned him. Would he come back to the Assembly? Said Noel, who does not like Mendes-France and hates Germany: "Certainly not. I am in bed and I intend to stay here...
...Saigon last week, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem arrested a former Minister of the Interior on charges of extorting $120,000 from local Chinese businessmen. Diem scheduled a spectacular public trial, in which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy...
...owner, who held the rest of the stock. The Observer's new publisher will be Jim Knight, executive vice president of the chain and general manager of the Miami Herald. Said new Publisher Knight in a city-room talk to the Observer's staff: "We intend to run the Observer as a completely local operation. We have a few tricks we can offer you as consultants. But you will have no absentee management...
...deliberately planned in the hope of provoking the U.S. into actions which our European friends and allies would regard as ill-advised and which would perhaps shake our unity at a time when we hope it will be reinforced by the pending London-Paris accords. The U.S. does not intend thus to be hastily provoked into needless action." This highly practical talk was the more forceful because Dulles' line had already been proved right. U.S. allies, especially Britain, had been reassured by Dulles' verbal restraint and had not hesitated to denounce the Reds in terms as strong as any Dulles...