Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elysée Palace in Paris, President of the Republic Vincent Auriol drummed his fingers on the desk at which Napoleon I signed his abdication after Waterloo. Intent on a journey, Vincent Auriol was trying to remember if everything, every last detail, had been taken care of. This week he (with his wife Michele) sails on the Ile de France, the first French President to visit...
...captivated Washington correspondents with his candor, his willingness to take on all questions, his 24-hour-a-day readiness to answer reporters' telephone calls. Most members of Congress seem to feel the same way about him. Even when it is intent on boiling him 11 oil or chopping his authority out from under him, the Congress experiences a strange melting sensation around the icy fringes of its will power whenever Mil Di Salle paddles up to Capitol Hill to testify...
...lacks, Lebrun's triptych does have great force-enough to compete with war pictures and even neon signs. That may well be the reason for its critical success. Fifty years ago, critics were so intent on judging an artist's skill that they misjudged such unskilled but forceful painters as Gauguin and Van Gogh. For better or worse, a lot of modern critics now rate forcefulness first...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony Society handed Congress its case for relief from the 20% federal admissions tax. Before a House Ways & Means Committee intent on raising billions of new tax money, Philharmonic President Floyd G. Blair cited the predicament of his own orchestra this year: an estimated deficit of $149,000 after paying $100,000 in admission taxes. Twenty-eight other major U.S. symphonies, some 20 minor musical organizations and 600 school orchestras are being hurt by the same tax squeeze, said Blair. So is the Metropolitan Opera, which last year paid $410,000 in amusement taxes, wound up with...
Last week homely, rawboned Estes Kefauver, always eager to please, was trudging through California, doggedly intent on the trail of Big Crime. His gait was steady and a little flatfooted. His air was mildly astonished, as befitted a wary Tennessee mountain man inspecting the sinful sight of the big cities...