Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International control will be extremely difficult. Expert inspectors will have to follow raw materials through every step of the process, which would be almost impossible in nations intent on evading control...
...Intent on putting responsibility back where it belongs, he apparently assumed that, once he had delegated someone to do a job, the job was thereby not only finished, but finished to everyone's satisfaction...
...fact: an Empire family party was in the making. Also in London -or on the way-were Australia's External Affairs Minister Herbert Vere Evatt, New Zealand's Paddy Webb, South Africa's Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hendrick Hofmeyr. Like Mackenzie King, they were admittedly intent on gaining for Britain's Dominions an effective voice in the writing of the peace. It looked as if four lobbyists were about to turn on the pressure...
Steve O'Neill, more confident than ever about his TNT, could go to Sunday Mass with no worldly intent to take an extra tug at his beads-in supplication for so mundane a thing as a World Series victory. Once again the Tigers were favorites, and Jolly Cholly slept poorly, knowing that Hal Newhouser would be throwing them in against his club...
...scrimmage line (instead of five yards back), coaches were more offense-minded than ever. A handful of holdouts, like Cornell and Penn State, scurried to the yardage-producing T formation. Oregon, Vanderbilt, Princeton and Baylor decided to rejoin the pigskin parade after sitting out a season or two. Intent on missing none of the fun, the public had already made most of the big games near-sellouts...