Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court has closed this loophole. The whole story of the progress of racial equality seems to consist of a process of closing one loophole after another. New ways are constantly being found to circumvent the intent of the Constitutional guarantees of equality. For many years the Supreme Court, itself, was one of the chief sinners in this respect. It decided on somewhat dubious grounds that the 14th Amendment was meant to protect only those rights that stem from national citizenship, and that most basic civil rights are contingent upon state citizenship. The Court was disposed not to protect civil rights...
...religion. In 1923, when he was 15, Barrett went to work in a furniture factory and subsequently carved hundreds of Chippendale chair legs. Says he: "Oh, how I hate Chippendale!" There was no Chippendale influence in his squatly intense Stalemate, which looked like a couple of ancients so intent on a game of chess that their bodies knottily reflected all the possible moves on the board...
...average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...father. Portrait of an anxious-to-please son-in-law-to-be: "I wrote you [the father] and Mrs. Langdon a letter . . . which will offend again, I fear-and yet, no harm was meant, no undue levity, no disrespect, no lack of reverence. The intent was blameless-and it is the intent...
...office and the City Council will limp along on a scant five-to-four majority for two more years. Until the liberal elements in Cambridge can pile up a record imposing enough to knife through class bigotry, they must resign themselves to a never ending battle with those politicians intent on turning the city government into a money tree...