Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaint from a group of private citizens has been received by the police, an officer, usually a plain clothes man, will visit the bookstores carrying the supposedly obscene piece. The officer will call the attention of the book-seller to the "lewd" parts in an attempt to discover his intent in selling the book...
...phenomena of the day were the long lines of intent and patient people who shuffled slowly outside almost every polling place. In 1952 the U.S. people urgently wanted to vote. In the secrecy of the voting booth, they had their...
...jubilation over a slick journalistic trick well played, there was one small worry: Reporter Kellerman was still charged with burglary. Kellerman already had his defense figured out. He contended that before he can be convicted of burglary, the police must prove he had broken into the bar with "intent to commit a crime." Said he: "I had no such intent. My only intent was to get a good story." Nevertheless, at week's end Reporter Kellerman faced trial for third-degree burglary and a maximum term of ten years, if convicted...
...Creeping Social 5. Truman's labor policy. 3. At Philadelphia Ike re-emphasized the peaceful intent of his promise, made at Madison Square Garden...
...Stalin's new party line, his present attitude of unconcern over "capitalistic encirclement," and his prophecy that the "imperialist" nations will war on each other (TIME, Oct. 13). Apparently the world was in for another Communist attempt to divide the anti-Communist coalition by creating popular fronts. The intent was to relax tension in Europe; the spread of cold peace was a measure of how much a credulous Europe wanted tension relaxed...