Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwisdom of the creation or continuance of the committee"), but it rejected the argument that Wilkinson and Braden were being persecuted merely for attacking the committee. Nor did their attacks make them immune from questioning as Communist suspects. "We can find nothing to indicate that it was the intent of Congress to immunize from interrogation all those (and there are many) who are opposed to the existence of the Un-American Activities Committee...
...those in command of American foreign policy, Kissinger has a valuable message: "The West must have much more positive goals than to divine Soviet intent." We must unbend from our defensive diplomatic position, adopt a course aimed at implementing specific aims, especially in Africa and Asia, and not exhaust all our ideas in containment of the Soviets, "As the strongest and most cohesive nation in the free world," Kissinger states, "we have an obligation to lead and not simply depend on the course of events...
...Eisenhower heritage persuades Washington's new economists that they must re-educate the U.S. to make the most of its economy. As they sit down to the levers of control, they hold that it is their intent to make the free-market economy operate more freely. Many former skeptics, having taken the measure of the men and their motives, think they deserve a chance...
...members of the legislature. The remaining 15 will be elected by both rolls under a percentage system that will ensure both the black and white voting blocs the power to veto any candidate. Though London's Daily Mirror called it "too clever by half," the plan's intent was clear: to give swing power to moderates of both races...
...Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene. Deadened in spirit, as a leper is benumbed in body, a famed architect takes himself off to a leper colony, closely followed by a venal journalist intent upon according him canonization-by-newsprint. Never has Greene stated more eloquently his lifelong argument with...