Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bookish man, plain and homely, he holds to concrete propositions which he pursues with earnest intent. He was pursuing a concrete proposition a year ago when, pleading for military funds for the North Atlantic pact nations, he said: "With our allies, strong or weak as they may be, we face a long period of tension . . . We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternately press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the signatory powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution ... is born of fear and selfishness, and of such meanness that all despise it. Our rise to leadership must...
From then on, Jeremiah rushes headlong to disaster-an elaborate venture into murder, his apprehension by some bumbling louts intent on gaining the reward for the murderer's discovery, the climactic trial at which he hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater fear of the truth. After a last-minute escape to a miserable outlaw camp in the wilderness of Kentucky, he comes to the final, crushing discovery that he has been the victim of a plot by his political cronies...
Perkins added that he would never "extend a dinner invitation with other than social intent, nor broach to a guest a subject which we knew to be controversial. Business should not be introduced under the guise of social intercourse...
...citizens of Rawlins, Wyo. (pop. 8,634) had no end of trouble after they decided, one night back in 1880, to lynch a bandit named George Parrott. It was easy enough to get him out of jail. "Big Nose George," intent on escape, had thoughtfully filed off his leg irons and knocked the jailer cold with them, thus had left himself undefended. But he was a hard man to hang...
Most important of these changes is that "evidence that an organization will comply with the rules" should not be a criterion for recognition. Demonstration of intent is virtually impossible, and groups should lose or be denied charters only if proved guilty of an actual rules violation. The Dean's Office should not have wide discretion in deciding whether organizations are likely to be law-abiding...