Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flight. The experiment worked. The Civilian Pilot Training Program gradually became military in intent. Thousands were graduated into Army & Navy flying under the doubtful eyes of old-line flying officers. License holders jumped to 100,000. Almost as many more took elementary training...
...Away, slight men. . . . It is not safe to stand obstructing the front of this great army. You might be trampled underfoot . . . because of your small stature and the uplifted eyes of a people whose 'eyes have seen the glory' and whose purpose is intent on the inspired leadership of your neighbor and my friend Franklin Roosevelt...
Chile received prompt regrets from the German Government. Vice Admiral Julio Allard, Commander in Chief and Director General of the Chilean Navy, announced himself satisfied that there had been "no deliberate intent" to sink a Chilean ship, explained: "Inasmuch as the ship was proceeding without lights . . . the submarine could not know under what flag the Tolten was navigating." While the Chilean Government drafted a note protesting to the U.S. for the fatal order to extinguish lights, reportedly serving formal notice that Chilean ships would under no circumstances run blacked out, Ambassador Rodolfo Michels Cavero in Washington demanded another ship...
...line with their policy, expressed last fall, of ferreting out and exposing unfair business practices in the Square, the Consumers' Aid Bureau of the Student Council recently unearthed a case against auto repairman. George Snell, whom it has accused of general fraudulency and intent to deceive while working on the automobile of an unnamed Cambridge resident...
...chances against the Nazis. More immediately costly than such errors of judgment was the failure of both Army and Navy Intelligence to keep tabs on the Japs. Said the Roberts report on Pearl Harbor: "Both commanders were handicapped by lack of information as to Japanese dispositions and intent...