Word: intentedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...
...Congress has not 'had time' to pass a bill concerning soldiers' allotments. It has not 'had time' to consider important bills on America's intent to cooperate with other nations after the war. It has not 'had time' to decide whether we should rank China with other nations legally...
...Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce was swamped with bids to write a column about Washington. News syndicates and magazines guessed that millions of the U.S. reading public would be interested in what Clare Luce had to say. Offers ran up to four figures a week. Congresswoman Luce, intent on learning her new job, turned them all down...
...example, take the expression "inverse feedback". Upon hearing this term used for the first time I could not help but conjure up the idea that it referred to a designing female who, intent upon her prey, cajoles an unsuspecting officer into accepting a home-cooked dinner date and then on the pretext of "ration coupons, you know" drags him off to the luxuriant confines of some expensive restaurant, there to prove herself to be an "inverse feedback--or feedbag"--depending upon your mood and your pronunciation...
...monitors picked up Tokyo's interpretation of U.S. zoot-suit riots: "The zoot-suiters are isolationist fighters. They are strong, courageous young men who have banded together in a nationwide army to express by physical force their disapproval of the war. They are intent on spilling their blood in their own country for their own sacred ideals...