Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven co-saboteurs, including Haupt, attended a "sabotage school" at Brandenburg, near Berlin, graduated, were then U-boated to America. "We were to harm, wherever possible, all aluminum production in the United States. . . . The intent was to do the worst possible damage in this country. Our exact assignment was to damage aluminum plants of the Alcoa Company in Tennessee, California and Oregon, and to damage rail lines between these plants and war-production centers...
...Battle Begins. The clash of intent led this week to battle. The Japanese began a coordinated land, sea and air attack...
These were only a starter. After them will come some 500 other artists-divas and dowagers, prodigies and spaghetti tenors, world-famed violinists and pianists, European celebrities and art-conscious radio crooners-all intent on their big moment before the nation's most exacting (and jaded) high-brow musical audience. The Manhattan recital season was off again last week to its characteristically chaotic start. At the box office, Manhattan's ticket salesmen were jubilant. As in 1917, they reported a recital boom...
Student Council drives have always been an underrated service to students. By performing all distribution personally, the Council has prevented continual drives by individual agencies each intent only upon filling its own quota. This has eliminated an eternal undergraduate nuisance, and guaranteed student support of numerous worth-while causes. Without such a system students would be called on for far more than the modest seven dollars asked by the Fund. They would be tossed from "worthy cause" to "worthy cause," winding up too strapped to support that final "last drive" which really the worthiest of them...
...while. The issues in the bundle from the Army post office were wrinkled and limp after the long journey from London, and they were many days old. But they still were full of the only news fit for a Briton of Sir Henry's stamp. His heavy face intent, his huge body hunched and at ease, Sir Henry took up the oldest issue in the packet. He read it through, column by column, then proceeded to the next issue, and the next, in scrupulous chronological sequence. Refreshed, restored and as well up on events...