Word: intendment
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...appear before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Crux of their arguments: this is no time to throw a monkey wrench into the country's foreign-relations machinery. There is no need for safeguards against such treaties as the Human Rights Covenant, said Dulles, because the Administration does "not intend to become a party to any such covenant"-or to other treaties outside the "proper field" of international relations...
...heartland of America." For a self-proclaimed old-fashioned girl, twice-married Bobo (her first was Socialite Richard Sears) stirred up a fine lot of publicity. She was going to establish that marriage "is no whimsy," and would fight any "cheap mail-order divorce." Furthermore, she said, "I intend to be a Mrs. Rockefeller until the day I die." Winthrop's $1,000,000 trust fund for her was "revocable" and "not worth the paper it was written on." And while poking around the apartment, reporters said, she was shocked to find photographs of other women, as well...
...they intend to imply my support of the solicitation of your vote in favor of any union," he told them, "I believe you will feel as I do that it is an example of very poor taste...
...Secretary of State visited, the Middle East. This week John Foster Dulles, accompanied by Harold Stassen, began a 20-day flying, fact-finding tour of the area. Dulles emphasized as he left the U.S.: "I shall bring with me no specific plans or programs, nor do I intend to ask the governments I visit for any decisions. I shall listen intently...
...wedding day is rainy, a lucky omen in Brazil, and the wedding night so blissful that Author Machado slyly warns the reader: "Don't worry, I do not intend to describe it; human language does not possess forms proper to so great a task." Lucky in love, Bento is also lucky at law, partly because good friend Ezekiel shunts cases his way. And when Capitu bears a son, Bento insists on naming the child Ezekiel...