Word: intendment
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...then I must have had in mind several provisos. The quotation is okay if we understand that by "a pretty girl" I mean a wholesome, well-clad gal. Sex and lust can never be successful baits for a soul's eternal salvation, and we certainly do not ever intend to use them...
Explaining Cummings' failure to teach a course, Professor Finley said yesterday, "I don't think that he is interested in the academic process. He is a poet, not a scholar, and he does not intend to make a pretense at being...
...England, the press was warmly hospitable to Chaplin. The Observer said: "Should American authorities really intend to revoke his permit . . . because of random imputations and not on the basis of judicial verdict, they would be acting . . . rather shabbily and with little sense of logic ... If the great comedian wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome...
...this week began, Stevenson held his first press conference in more than three weeks, told reporters that, unlike Ike, he would not give blanket endorsement to all candidates running on his party's ticket. (He did not name any Democrats whom he did not intend to endorse.) Derisively, Stevenson described the Taft-Eisenhower meeting (see above) as "the first time that the vanquished has dictated the peace terms to the victor." Said he: "I gather that the Republican progressives who fought so hard for the general at Chicago are wondering what has become of the 'great crusade...
...sitting here hoping that more will drop out," Business School spokesmen said last week when they revealed that preliminary registration figures showed that 643 men intend to enter this first-year class this fall...