Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inequality has been and still is crass and pronounced, this is perhaps a natural tendency. But it is nonetheless inhibiting to national and individual effort, and it is already justifying and concealing innumerable small invasions of personal freedom. Britons have given up most of their economic freedoms and seem intent on abandoning the remainder as soon as they can. So far, they imagine that this will not mean the final loss of individual freedom. If they are wrong, they will know it only when it is too late...
Under the circumstances, Langer argues, the U.S. would have been foolish to withdraw in a high-minded huff merely out of distaste for Darlans and Lavals. Langer says that Vichy's North African governor, General Maxime Weygand, "was just as intent as we on excluding the Germans from North Africa and blocking any program of collaboration." Nine months before the U.S. went to war with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this...
Langley, a long-haired and shabby figure in a greasy cap and a flapping coat, grew more secretive, more intent on being "let alone." Although he was seldom seen, he led a life of incredible activity. He read aloud to Homer, sometimes sketched buildings "all in red" which Homer had seen in visions, saved tons & tons of newspapers for Homer to read when he regained his sight. After midnight, Langley roamed the city, pulling a cardboard box on the end of a long rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked...
Lucy became a rich spinster and a legend in the town, a legend that eventually woke up to itself and had the shakes. Richter's quiet sketching of the period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...
...Government as the sovereign, they said, stands beyond the jurisdiction of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Act only pertains to "persons" involved in labor disputes, and the sovereign is not "persons." Was it the intent of Congress, which wrote the Act, that the Act should not apply to Government? Union lawyers argued that if Congress intended to exclude the Government from the Act it would have said so. Congressman James Beck had argued at the time that Congress should have said so. Vinson impatiently, almost angrily, brushed aside that argument. "We do not accept his [Beck's] views...