Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faure's survival depends on the sufferance of the Assembly, where he lacks the support of the biggest party (the Gaullists), is only tolerated by the No. 2 party, the Socialists, and scornfully rejected by the No. 3 party (the Communists). The Gaullists are still intent on letting France sink to such sorry straits that it will put De Gaulle in command. The Socialists were willing last week to let Faure come to power as head of a coalition of the center, but unwilling to make that coalition strong by joining it themselves. Faure's pieced-together cabinet...
With a few more wrinkles and blacker circles under the eyes, Bette Davis has returned to the screen. She recaptures all the reckless will-power from her role in All About Eve and every malicious intent and tortured-expression from The Little Foxes days. Injected into a murder intrigue, these attributes would be formidable, except for one fact. Her movie personality, which has been geared to a virtuoso performance, does not quite reveal its unique psychological assets in a double lead, especially in this murder story...
...these girls-and others still unheralded-might upset Andy on any given day. Characteristically, she is more intent on doing her best than she is on winning. Says Andy: "I know it's the Olympics. Everybody wants to win. But honestly, I don't. I'd just like to do my best, that's all." Dave says: "I've learned never to wish her good luck on a race day. It just makes her mad. I just tell her to have...
...Snarling everything was the usual amount of red tape. A Detroit automaker got a jet-engine letter of intent in January 1950, sent Wright Field a complete list of the machine tools needed. Wright Field returned the list, saying: "This is not the right way; use code 76." The rewritten list was also returned with the message, "Sorry, we have decided to use different forms; make 39 copies." After 39 copies, each weighing 5¼ lbs., were dispatched, Wright Field requested that "this be done over." The engine, which should have started coming out in February 1951, will...
Though no rebel, young Philip occasionally fretted at the guide-strings. In Lausanne, while standing behind some intent card-playing senators, he "snipped the strings of their breeches" and clipped their flowing wigs to their chairs. Then he cried "Fire!" and the senators sprang up bareheaded and bare-bottomed...