Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...received warmly. He warned his listeners not to expect too much from the conference: his best hope, at this stage of the preliminaries, was to advance German reunification into the framework of specific negotiations. Dulles added that should the Russians balk at taking such a small step, their intent could not be peaceful. "This Geneva meeting," Dulles told a press conference before he left for Europe, "is the way to put the so-called Spirit of Geneva to work...
...state of Illinois." Then, having dealt Harriman a pat on the back and Stevenson something sharper, Harry Truman left Albany. Ave Harriman, who had publicly pledged his support to Stevenson last summer, turned the knife: in a TV interview at week's end, while disclaiming any intent to run himself, he said that he felt no obligation to support Adlai Stevenson...
...Wisconsin Senator denied any intent to investigate the University "as an educational institution." He said he left that to the Internal Security and House Un-American Activities Committee. "We were interested in Harvard because it was doing a lot of defense work...
Donald Maclean was sandy-haired, tall, with great latent physical strength, but fat and rather flabby. Meeting him, one was conscious of both amiability and weakness. He did not seem a political animal but resembled the clever, helpless youth in a Huxley novel, an outsize Cherubino intent on amorous experience but too shy and clumsy to succeed. He sought refuge on the more impetuous and emancipated fringes of Bloomsbury and Chelsea...
...Government, anxious to increase U.S. aluminum capacity without building the Big Three still bigger, decided to try Harvey again. The General Services Administration gave Harvey a letter of intent, offering the company federal help in building a plant at The Dalles. Harvey went ahead and bought 500 acres for a plant site. Then new trouble boiled up. Harvey had been planning to supply the plant with electric power from the federal Bonneville Power Administration...