Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formlessness, informality and a sincere respect for the sponsor's product have long been part of the Garroway formula. Masquerading in a misty domino of entertainment that only partly concealed its real intent, much of what passed across the nation's television screens last week was also devoted to selling some sort of product, tangible or intangible. At least three of the top shows of the week, Disneyland, Warner Brothers Presents, and the M-G-M Parade were blatant commercials from beginning to end, designed only to lure viewers away from their telesets and into the nearest movie...
...people to their Emperor, his trial and execution would have necessitated an additional million troops successfully to carry out the occupation of Japan." MacArthur added that the U.S. should turn back control of "socalled" war criminals to their own governments and abrogate the concept of war crimes tribunals: "Their intent, of course, was to establish higher moral standards for the waging of war. I don't think they have succeeded in bringing about these high motives...
...bitter telegram to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, it said that some 40 U.S. businessmen have been denied exit visas, and are "held as individual hostages" by the South Korean government until heavy new corporate taxes are paid. Some companies "have been notified of ROK intent to seal offices and impound assets" if they fail to pay "exorbitant sums labeled tax, but not implied by Korean tax laws...
...mission: to reassert his belief that the Big Four conference at Geneva was merely a first step toward peace, offering little more than a friendlier international climate in which diplomats can begin work on the actual problems of the cold war. It was the President's intent to warn the U.S. and its allies against premature relaxation of the posture of strength that made the "Spirit of Geneva" possible in the first place...
...darkness, but fell to the floor, critically wounded, as Carpenter dashed behind the screen and out a fire exit, trailing a spoor of blood from a slug in his right thigh. For the next 23 hours, 500 enraged detectives and 60 squads of patrolmen roamed the area, intent on getting Cop-Killer Carpenter. A helicopter watched the rooftops. Scores of radio and TV broadcasts told Chicagoans that one of the city's greatest manhunts...