Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine. The sky was blue, and out beyond the rustling palms, sunlight glittered on the turquoise shoals and cobalt deeps of the Gulf of Mexico. The nights were cool. But as he settled down for his eighth vacation at the lawn-bordered "Little White House," Harry Truman seemed less intent than usual on savoring the joys of sunburn and exercise...
Returning to the U.S., he hit the lecture trail-a tall, gentle man with an open Midwestern face and the anxious, intent eyes of an Elijah. In one year he spent more than one-third of his nights in sleeping cars. He left the Times. He and his wife sent their children to college and lived on what he made from his lectures and an occasional article. He organized Federal Union, Inc. as the holding company of his crusade. After France fell, he scraped together $2,385 in cash and promises and bought a full-page ad in the Times...
Smith escaped last year for a much-needed vacation by telling his large and intent audience that he had to go to South America to find the Flubadub, a gangling, simple-minded animal that wears a flowerpot for a hat, has the head of a duck, a spaniel's ears, a giraffe's neck, the body of a dachshund, a seal's flippers, a pig's tail and cat's whiskers...
...they i) help the police in combating juvenile delinquency, and 2) prove that crime doesn't pay. Last week, a critic who should know told the radiomen to think up a better defense. Writing in the Monthly Record of Connecticut State Prison, Convict Le-Roy Nash (assault with intent to kill, 20-25 years) reported on 50 programs he had studied over a two-week period...
Licensing powers, Johnson argued, should be set up within the Department of Commerce. Under his bill, every actor and actress would be licensed at $1 a year, every producer at $100, every film distributor at $10,000. The bill's language was vague, but Big Ed's intent was clear: licenses would be revoked whenever a holder was guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, or whenever the censors decided a film encouraged "contempt for public or private morality." In short, whenever the censors disapproved of the private life of an actor-or the content of a film...