Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small cabin off the flag bridge of an Essex-class carrier, known in the fleet as "the Showboat," Admiral Edward Coyle Ewen sat sipping orangeade, explaining the targets for the next day. Task Force 77 was barreling along Korea's west coast, intent on blasting strategic targets at Pyongyang, Seoul and Inchon. While Ewen was talking, fuel and ordnance men readied the Showboat's planes...
...sent to the penitentiary in Texas for murder in 1918. Adding verses as they came to him, Lead Belly made Irene a prison favorite. Five years after he got out of the Texas jail on a pardon, he bounced into Louisiana's state prison farm for assault with intent to kill, and sweet Irene went right along with...
Ever since the early days of the occupation, Japan's press had been infested with Communists. Red-led unions, going far beyond the intent of U.S.-sponsored labor laws, had won contracts denying management the right to fire anyone for any reason without full union approval. Thus, by 1946, Reds had gained editorial control of Tokyo's major dailies. Although many of the Red leaders were finally ousted under the prodding of occupation authorities, many lesser Communists remained and management was powerless to do anything about them...
...obvious intent of the U.S. plan was to keep the right flank more or less stationary, and swing the rest of the line gradually south and east until the U.S. left flank came to rest safely on the southern coast near Pusan. The operation was endangered last week by a Red drive down Korea's western coast which captured Kwangju and pushed on towards Sunchon. This indicated that the Reds' main drive may not follow the U.S. retreat along the railroad into the very rough, defensible country southeast of Taejon...
...members Bourke B. Hickenlooper and Henry Cabot Lodge (who did not sign the report) for not attending sessions regularly, adding that Hickenlooper had read through only nine of the 81 loyalty files, and Lodge only twelve. Lodge promptly cracked back that the whole investigation was "superficial and inconclusive," too intent on "proving or disproving individual charges" to take a thorough audit of disloyalty...