Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists are obviously intent on maintaining pork production. Country newspapers recently praised extravagantly a farm woman whose cooperatively owned sow died while still suckling half a dozen little pigs; the woman saved the pigs by feeding them at her own breast. Some 3,000,000 Chinese students have been taken from their studies and sent into the fields. Last week the New China News Agency complained that some had arrived with the idea of becoming "a new kind of temporary peasant," but had lost enthusiasm when they learned they had been assigned to farm work for life...
Every man and woman in Britain is supposed in theory to contribute a portion of his or her income to the nation's health insurance and unemployment fund, and Britain's imperturbable bureaucracy is intent on allowing the fewest possible exceptions to the rule. Some months ago the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance sent one Harry ("Stopper") Corke its blanks to fill out, got them back with a note from Corke scribbled on the back: "I do not need these cards. I haven't worked for 14 months. I get my living by thieving." As credentials...
...readily ask, should Exeter be the breeder of these feelings? Why are not other well-prepared students equally intent on asserting their superiority? Although there is no pat answer to this question, two factors may help explain the pattern...
...government disclaimed any intent to go back on Harding's stern regulations, but one highly placed Londoner who knows Sir Hugh says: "He would never have accepted this thankless job without a broad agreement with the government, without a prospect of resolving the conflict." In New York, where he was busy lobbying for next month's U.N. Cyprus debate, Archbishop Makarios shrugged: "A solution is just a matter of time. Cyprus will be free." But Turkey's President Celal Bayar still growled that Turkey will never let an island 40 miles off its coast fall into Greek...
...tour de force. Mr. Williams comes upon the virtually bare stage alone and aided only by lighting and a few manuscripts as props and delivers an enthralling three hours of storytelling. It would be a difficult thing to say whether his performance is a reading or a drama--his intent is surely the latter...