Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...count on victory. But not Tammany; it went down before a television hero. During the Kefauver hearings, Halley had become as familiar to millions of televiewers as Hopalong Cassidy. As the Liberal-City Fusion-Independent candidate for council president, he was elected handily, and now his eyes seem intent on the mayor's chair...
...Russian attack imminent? Neither U.S. military authorities nor the Japanese Foreign Office are ready to predict one. They know only that the capacity is there; Russia's intent they cannot judge. But, warns a Japanese observer: "Americans are convinced that the real danger from Russia is in Europe. Perhaps this is right -for the next few years. But the Russians are patient. Watch them carefully, or you may be felled in the East while you are watching the West...
...with the sacred symbol of the 'Poon--the Ibis, affectionately known as Thresky--had not known what they were about. We might have believed that the venerated old bird, blown down from his perch atop the Lampoon building, had been carried off by children or others without malicious intent...
Since 1945, the world's high places had been filled with small men who seemed intent on proving that great men were obsolete. They had fiddled and fussed, explained and complained. Now Winston Churchill returned to power-a man who bore the consciousness of his own stature proudly, who shouldered responsibility with sober relish-a man who was a mover rather than a victim...
Among those defending the mural, however, one remarked that "oftentimes opinions on the content of a painting reflect more the mind of the viewer than the intent of the artist...