Word: intentional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miners had offered to make a two and one-half or a five year contract on definite terms, but would not hear of arbitration. The operators were equally intent on securing an arrangement under which there would be no strikes for a long period?as near a permanent settlement as possible, with automatic means of adjustment as conditions changed...
Once he was so depressed by a chance word of rebuke from his father that he wandered off and disappeared for a time. Per contra, he once jumped from his bed in the middle of the night, intent on performing a newly conceived experiment, rushed to the Neva (on the other side of which stood his father's laboratory), plunged in and swam across. "I could not wait. The ferryboat was delayed," said...
...suitable terms. The Belgians came, poof and little, but proud. They were faced by a creditor who acknowledged that there were moral reasons for mitigating the debt. Arrangements were worked out on this basis. The French came exclaiming "We are poor! Oh, so poor, hélas!" and were intent on driving a bargain on semi-bankruptcy terms. They met a bargaining creditor and went home without result. But the Italians came and laid their cards on the table-or at least gave that impression. They said, "We are hard up. Here's an exact statement of our financial...
Whatever their intent, extensive rioting and looting commenced; and General Sarrail gave every evidence of having been stampeded by this into a belief that the French forces must rally as for a last stand. He is said to have withdrawn French citizens and troops from the Christian quarter, leaving the other Christian nationals to the protection of their consuls and at the mercy of the mob, which was fortunately not extremely hostile to non-French foreigners. And for 48 hours French shot and shell poured into the city; French tanks dashed at full speed through the streets, firing point blank...
...flag-waving sympathizers. With them walked famed and unique Communist M. P. Shapurji Saklatvala, whom Secretary Kellogg recently barred from the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 28 CABINET). Shapurji had previously supplied bail for several of the accused; attentive, he had harkened to the words of Prosecutor Sir Travers, with intent to make good use of them in stirring up Communist resentment against "British Fascism...