Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is something special about the mind of a good lawyer-he does not think as others do. He will not accept easy generalizations nor climb quickly to a conclusion. He prefers, like a mountaineer intent upon a peak, to take the more careful, circuitous route so that he can be surer of his ground. He loves the facts, detests disarray and imprecision, and spends his working hours trying to define life within a framework of the law. He is not born this way; it takes a law school to turn the necessary bent of mind. And for thousands...
...think he might make a pretty good one. "He is more passionate, more openly aggressive, more impulsive and more capable of commitment than was his brother, but fundamentally he also is neither liberal nor conservative; he is an ideologically uncommitted man," says Shannon. "He remains a hardheaded pragmatist intent upon exercising power in the best national interests of the United States and the cause of freedom...
...sort usually expected to be behind such causes, but the marijuana law "gripes me," he explains. "The hazards of marijuana are a myth." As a means of proving it, he took on the defense of Ivan Weiss and Joseph Leis, two college dropouts charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell it. In court last week, Oteri could not get their names straight. But otherwise, he gave them a painstakingly prepared defense-the product of six months of research...
Clearly, the President has abused the intent of Congress. He has used the Tonkin resolution--and the increased U.S. war casualties that resulted--as a club to batter Congressional opposition...
This unexpected influx created much confusion. The police had been intent on restraining the bystanders before the marchers arrived at the hotel, but suddenly backed off and let them all rush forward...