Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Assistant U.S. Attorney John Wall maintained that the defendants' actions had been performed with the intent to break the law, not to exercise free speech. He added that direct incitement to illegal acts was not covered by the First Amendment...
...Negro rioters demeaned the cause of nonviolence, that was not in most cases their intent. The majority of plunderers and burners in American cities last week were about as ideologically motivated as soldier ants. Many, to be sure, were venting the longstanding resentments of black Americans in a white society. But the Negro looters were predominantly driven by a combination of self-help and help-yourself. What of Martin Luther King? "His death just gave us an excuse," said Ronald Rudolph, 22, in Pittsburgh. "I never did dig the man much when he was alive." When a well-provisioned Harlem...
...Weinberg, "I may be jailed." He exaggerates but little: the backs of some of his latest dresses are cut away right down to the coccyx. Weinberg's flirtation with the lower limits of modesty only makes him one of the crowd. Rarely have so many designers been so intent on uncovering so much; and as a result, fashions this summer will be the breeziest and barest in memory...
This backhanded slap, coming just a few weeks before the assassination of Martin Luther King, was a sharp reminder of television's great and grave responsibilities in times of national crisis. Thus, when the explosive news event occurred, TV's mood and intent were one: cool...
Despite incidents of sensationalism, inaccuracies and distortions, newspapers, radio and television, on the whole made a real effort to give a balanced factual account of the 1967 disorders Despite this effort, the overall effect was, we believe, an exaggeration of both mood and intent...