Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prairie Populists with a common rural background, the instincts of teachers and a shared, lifelong devotion to the New Deal. When they arrived in the Senate on the same day in 1949, Humphrey was generally regarded as a brash young radical, a "black knight," as he puts it, intent on tilting against the senatorial establishment ruled by Democrat Richard Russell and Republican Robert Taft...
While much of his conversation with Ho was "off the record," Greene said, he had gotten the impression that North Vietnam would negotiate on one condition--that the U.S. "demonstrate an intent to get out of Vietnam...
After last week's sidewalk encounter, a scuffle ensued. Graves and a fellow Negro were subsequently wounded by shotgun blasts from a car; accused of the shooting were Garcia's brothers, Carlos and Robert, who were later charged with assault with intent to kill. Word swiftly spread through Watts. Next afternoon, Negro dropouts hanging around a high school began lobbing rocks at Mexicans and other Caucasians driving by. One stone hurled by a Negro struck a white speech-correction teacher in the head, and-said onlookers-when police dragged the suspect from a barbershop, he yelled, "Police brutality...
Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Harvard summer school, said the intent of the program is "to broaden their hopes and possibilities and give them a wider basis for judging careers...Just the social effect of living with students from other parts of the country," he noted, "can be very beneficial...
When his two-year fellowship ended, Schmidt returned home, intent on educating his daughters in Holland. But the lure of Southern California was too great. "Those big telescopes are a little like drugs," he explains. "Once you've worked with them, it's hard not to return." In 1959 he accepted the offer of an assistant professorship at Caltech and came back to Pasadena. The following year, after immersing himself in the specialties of his American colleagues-spectroscopy, cosmic radiation and extragalactic phenomena-he took over the job of retiring Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, who had been working...