Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants - and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...discredit the reputation of the International Red Cross in the eyes of the world." This kind of discrediting, said the government, "constitutes a grave attack on the policy of neutrality of Switzerland and compromises, in consequence, the security of the country." If a court of inquiry finds criminal intent is present, Professor Bonnard can be sentenced to 20 years at hard labor...
...Legend has it that one New Yorker, afraid his wife might try to contest his suit, posted a notice of intent in the courthouse men's room...
...last December when Wanger fired a pistol bullet into the groin of Actors' Agent Jennings Lang, whom Wanger then accused of trying to break up his marriage with Actress Joan Bennett. After Wanger threw himself on the court's mercy, the charge was reduced from assault with intent to murder to assault with a deadly weapon. He thus avoided a possibly unsavory trial which Hollywood dreaded, and got off with a four-month sentence. (Lang's recovery helped...
Surely no student participating in a rally such as that organized for last night, ventures out with the intent of behaving himself as he would at High Table. Boisterousness, within reason, might easily be tolerated on the part of law enforcers. If such an attitude on the part of London police is effective in presenting any unreasonable disturbance why shouldn't it work here? But then the spirit is all wrong. The attitude that Harvard students are mobsters and thugs invites disaster. In my opinion it was the police, not the students, who were looking for trouble. Less animosity...