Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead ones. He wants merely to preserve himself at a perpetual 35 by getting periodical surgical instalments of the glands of other men, who customarily die as a result of the transaction...
...Pale, intent men lay on white cots in the San Diego Naval Hospital last week listening with radio headsets to the news from the Pacific. They were casualties of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Palau, and they understood the cost of victory. They were armless, legless, diseased, blind. They knew that more would join them...
...doubt that the choice that Americans must make is a serious one-even if only a tithe of what each party has said of the other is true. And all the written words, the stares of the millions of eyes, are concentrated on Challenger Dewey with one intent: to divine his true character, to assess his true worth, to measure him against the well-known qualities of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Derby's mile-and-a-quarter might not be too long a reach for a horse with Pavot's appetite and disposition. (The only time Pavot ever showed any sign of temper was in the Hopeful Stakes at Belmont last month, when Jockey George Woolf, intent on running a front race all the way, twice tapped him between the ears with the whip, both times got a turnaround dirty look from his mount...
...Germans were so intent on saving these troops that they risked five more divisions in Yugoslavia to try to keep the road of escape open. But even the Germans in northern Serbia were in danger. At any time the Russians in Bulgaria might march in to seal off their retreat...