Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cook County Criminal court, which held that a picture of a girl tricked up in sunglasses, a hat and the Stars and Stripes might breach the peace, the state Supreme Court allowed that Modern Man magazine had not desecrated the flag and could not therefore be held guilty of intent to provoke a disturbance...
Holding the Egyptians at arm's length, fending off the Russians, battling his political opponents, Abdullah Khalil is already under attack for seeking U.S. aid for future development. Intent on irrigation pumps and not guns, Khalil takes little pains to conceal his impatience with other Middle East leaders who have accepted highly publicized Soviet arms deals that leave their basic problems unchanged. "They need money," he says. "They can't live on MIGs...
...addition to providing fine flashes of humor and plenty of surefire scenes. Librettist Menotti seems intent on making the point that as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed; waiting and hoping are the whole of life. Composer Barber, 47, had to do a good deal of waiting himself. Menotti wrote the libretto in intermittent stretches over an 18-month period ("At one point," says Barber, "he left Anatol standing in a drafty doorway in deep winter for months"). Barber himself named the leading character after scanning a What-to-call-your-baby book entitled Name This Child...
Intangibles. As accumulated by CBS, the balance sheet seemed to show that in the material things and the means of making them the U.S. still leads the Soviet Union; in actual strength it may be lagging, and in the crucial intangibles of intent and will power it may already be dangerously behind...
More practical-minded police officials, however, were intent on finding the man, wanted dead or alive, who assaulted one woman and tried to strangle four others. All males five feet 11 inches tall, wearing grey jackets, and expressing a preference for creme de menthe were being watched closely, and sources hoped that an arrest would be made...