Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter, Minn, the working man who raised the query about Government spending had exactly the opposite intent from what is indicated. He was arguing for unlimited Government spending. In my reply I indicated that there was a limit to Government spending, and that when men were fully employed and the factories were busy, further increases in Government spending would bring inflation, lack of balance and eventual grief, especially to the farmers...
...fought hard but fairly. He shook off hecklers the way a plow horse, intent on his furrow, swishes off flies. Grimly, ponderously, doggedly he plowed on, anxious only that his furrow be broad and deep and exactly straight; refusing to compromise or deviate or even rest until he had plowed the whole U. S. with the blade of his campaign...
With the Army and traveling salesmen arrived propagandists intent on stirring up native hatred of whites. Coming from China, where brutality was their code of conduct, Japanese soldiers assumed in Indo-China the role of liberators, fraternized with the natives and invited them to inspect and play with the guns of the hitherto forbidden French coast defense. Thousands of agents preached the New Order and distributed pamphlets explaining it. Lavishing tips on ricksha coolies and beggars, Japanese officers protested loudly their affection for the people...
While Kovacs, more intent on horse play than tennis, was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Annapolis Midshipman Joe Hunt, McNeill streaked through to the final - beating along the way young Jack Kramer, the boy wonder of this year's tournament, who had defeated, earlier in the week, Topnotchers Gilbert Hunt, Edward Alloo, Sidney Wood, Henry Prusoff, Frankie Parker...
...best gooseflesh dramas in years, Kind Lady is an especial favorite with Brady because it is tailored to the talents of his wife, Grace George. In 1935, as a gentle, fragile spinster kept prisoner in her own home by a gang of terrifying crooks intent upon driving her potty, Miss George won great critical kudos. It was repeated last week...