Word: intent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another majority, of opposite political views from purging another organization whose action they deem treasonable or immoral. Harvard, which during the 1950's fought for the preservation of an open society by resisting McCarthyite attempts to gag academic freedom, could now set a precedent for other universities more intent on banning SDS than ROTC. The SDS resolution would also deny these students who wish to receive military training while in college their right and opportunity...
...junta officers. Hard-lining former Colonel Ioannis Ladas was switched from the Public Order Ministry to the Interior Ministry, in the process losing direct control of the nation's police. He refused his new post. Ladas, and two other junta members, were balking at their reassignments. Premier Papadopoulos, intent on avoiding further damage to his government's reputation abroad, seemed to have sided with the doves, who wanted to spare the condemned man. The decision to do just that suggested that he had in fact tightened his hold on the government by one more notch...
Curtis, though not specifying what was likely to be done, said that he did not expect the News to become part of the University again. A major intent of the committee will be to reevaluate the newspaper's purpose...
...probably boast (if boast is the word) even more precarious futures. The general has lost his $50,000-a-year job as board chairman of a California electronics firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
...back cover he had listed hundreds of its energetic verbs and compound adjectives-forerunners of TIME'S "beetle-browed," "buzzard-bald," etc. He also encouraged backward-running sentences ("A ghastly ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family chapels went he, robbery of the dead intent upon"). When Hadden, only 31, died of a streptococcus infection in 1929, the magazine published a Milestones item about him which ended in a typical TIME sentence: "To Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never...