Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove Lewis steadily Right. More important, he grew steadily more isolationist. He opposed the Roosevelt foreign policy. He played ball with the Communists who were then sabotaging the defense effort. He drove back into the Republican party. In 1942, mad with rage at his lifelong friend, Phil Murray, and intent on being the big boss wherever he was, he marched the miners out of C.I.O. entirely...
Cruft Officers night at Pops Sunday was even bigger and better than last year. As Jesus Maria San Roma, the famous pianist, sat, fingers poised over the keys and Fieldler lifted his baton, and the whole audience sat hushed and intent on listening to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 2 in C Minor, "Pop!" went the cork of a champagne botite. A giggle gained momentum as it spread throughout Symphony Hall...
...Allies waited vainly for Finland to show some signs of intent or willingness to withdraw from Hitler's fold...
...Near both ends of the front, the Russians struck last week, and they were massed to strike elsewhere along its length. But the tone of Stalin's order, Moscow dispatches and the nature of last week's battles indicated that these were precautionary blows with a double intent: to jar and weaken the Germans before they could attack in force and to preserve Russian positions for the great assault to be launched later. If the second front did not develop as soon and as mightily as Stalin led his people to expect -well, they had no second front...
...these pages, I have hurled an insult at anyone, be it known that such was my deliberate intent, and I may as well state flatly now that it will be useless and a waste of time to ask me to say that I am sorry...