Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outlines seem like nothing ever seen in U.S. history. But what the "Hall of Our History" may lack in quality, it will make up in quantity. Proclaimed the project's pressagents: "Comparable to the pyramids of Egypt in immensity and transcending other wonders-of-the-world in its intent. The 'Hall of Our History' will be . . . longer than two city blocks, wider than a football field and taller than a nine-story building." Added Gugler: "No one would look at the pyramids if they were 20 or 30 feet high . . . This shrine will endure for a millennium...
...confusion about the U.N. goals. The U.S. was running the war, supplying the bulk of the troops, and to it belonged the main responsibility for defining the objectives of the war. When its policymakers failed, the voices of the . U.S. allies began to make themselves felt. As MacArthur, intent on victory, approached the Yalu, the Chinese, no doubt encouraged by dissension in the U.N. governments, attacked and threw MacArthur back. He rallied below the 38th parallel, started north again. The U.N. confusion over the object of the war grew noisier. With the firing of MacArthur, the confusion was not resolved...
...Intent on extending the Liberal Party's string of four consecutive victories and 18 years of power is Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 71, who succeeded William Lyon Mackenzie King as leader of his party and nation in 1948. St. Laurent was using an old and effective campaign technique. He traveled around the country making unemotional speeches, talking to schoolchildren like a wise old grandfather, mentioning with pride the accomplishments of his government, but abstaining almost wholly from campaign promises. With a powerful, entrenched party behind him, his own unmatched personal popularity, and an enviable record of producing both...
...seem to be so intent on placing the blame for McCarthy's present power on "the apologists for the New and Fair Deals" that you are willing to overlook any fact that belies your argument . . . Like all honest and intelligent people, you are ashamed of McCarthy. But . . . because you are doing your best to support President Eisenhower and the Republican Party, you are trying to minimize McCarthy's influence in that party, and to blame his strength on those with whom you disagree politically. It may be that the liberals, by their opposition to McCarthy, have helped...
...life, Melba left him and their child to take up an operatic career in Paris); a rich London playboy (John Justin), who helped her get started on her career; and an amorous hotelkeeper (Alec Clunes). Also figuring in the film: Impresario Oscar Hammerstein (Robert Morley). who is depicted as intent on bringing Melba to the U.S., and Queen Victoria (Sybil Thorndike), for whom she sings at Windsor Castle...