Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundreds of Israeli kibbutzim, its cooperative agriculture communities, were once feverishly intent on expanding the nation's wealth through hard work. Today most are building swimming pools or tennis courts--indicating the nation's growing eagerness to consolidate and relax, not expand...
...when Minister of the Interior Gaston Deferre arrived at Goldenberg's a short while after the attack, a mob gathered outside appeared intent on a lynching. "Mitterrand traitor!" "Mitterrand assassin!" they yelled at the President's representative as the police struggled to maintain control. Deferre took in the scene, said nothing, and quickly left...
...after the conference committee compromise has been accepted, much of the educators' excitement has died down. While still allowing for a university role, the law includes a statement of intent declaring that the burden will be kept to a minimum--most likely that institutions will have to ask students whether they have registered, but leaving the verification up to the feds. "They have given us an adequate framework," says Charles F. Saunders, a lobbyist for the American Council on Education...
...years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes, he sketched a head of singular beauty: a mass of black curls resting on an inverted triangle, the faintly protruding ears pointing downward toward the chin, the eyes shrouded but intent, as always...
Trespass is not illegal under English law; criminal intent must be proved. Since Fagan did not threaten to harm the Queen, he was charged with stealing half a bottle of wine worth $5.40 during an earlier visit to the palace on June...