Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime interest in the program comes from College and Radcliffe students definitely intent on applying to medical school. A survey shows that of the 124 Volunteers who comprise the entire project, 61 percent are pre-meds and another eight percent are considering the medical profession. The General Hospitals Program provides a close glimpse of the organizational workings of the five hospitals, contact with surgeons, ward doctors, nurses and interns on the job, and some actual experience in caring for the sick and injured...
...darkness and ends in darkness," Prokosch begins, and he pursues the sordid, the unhealthy, and the cruel throughout the book with what appears to be a devotion to some mistaken ideal of honesty. The only other explanation of his over-frequent descriptions of torture and disease would be an intent to please or attract readers through their sheer sadism...
...tourist who decides for Moscow next year will risk his life, not in the dark cells of the Lubianka prison below Dzerzhinsky Square, but in the wildly undisciplined traffic above. Moscow's streets are full of big, fast automobiles, all driven apparently by Sturmovik pilots intent on dive-bombing pedestrians. Or, as a recent visitor put it: "Dodging in and out of lanes, with nary a signal and with wild shouts of profanity at other cars, the Russian driver seems to be recapturing the elation felt by the Cossack of old when he swooped down from the steppes...
Every Sunday afternoon for the past 36 years, a small army of evangelists representing some 13 church groups has descended on the King County jail, intent on saving the souls of its captive audience. The evangelists never bothered to ask the prisoners whether they wanted the services, and many inmates openly grumbled about them. "Here come the Jesus Jazzers," became a weekly chant...
When their tutor first opened the front door, the three students were dumbfounded. Inside, the house was bedlam. Assorted children were attempting to catch several stray dogs apparently intent upon the family's female beagle. A second glance however, was enough to reassure the tutees. Unruffled and majestic in the doorway stood Myron Piper Gilmore. Bidding them a cordial welcome, he laughed the slightly apologetic laugh of a man who, though not immune to crisis, can almost always rise above it. Perhaps for this very ability, he is now a full professor and Chairman of the History Department...