Word: intents
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...concept of "fault," however, may be of less value here than that of "intent" or "objective," in the sense that for many persons some of the time, and for some persons most of the time, driving is a form of aggression. It is a socially approved, or at least provided, outlet for violent behavior. Some years ago, the British novelist L.P. Hartley envisioned a future world in which public automobile accidents were staged much as the ancient Romans once held gladiatorial games. Certainly the constant broadcasting of the "holiday death toll" over festivals such as Christmas has had something...
Others see him as more of a Mephisto, who is intent on denying either major challenger a majority of the electoral vote. He could then swap his support for a "covenant"-as he calls it-with the candidate who agrees to advance his policies. Besides the predictable Southern vote, Wallace hopes to get a big chunk of the Goldwater Republican and dissident Democratic vote in the North. Historically, the odds are against his achieving the goal he seeks; only twice has an election been deadlocked and decided by the U.S. House of Representatives. The last: in 1824, when John Quincy...
Grounds for Contempt. The main intent was to curb out-of-court talking by judges, court employees, prosecutors, defense lawyers and police from the time of arrest to trial's end. During that period, they would be permitted to give newsmen the defendant's name, the nour and place of arrest, information about whether the defendant resisted or was armed at the time of arrest, a description of any physical evidence seized, and the nature of the charge. The jurists and cops would be specifically barred from revealing any previous record, the results of fingerprinting and lie detector...
Munyon, Budelis, Parker, and Council Secretary Jon White answer that the different proposals on the wording of the referendum were just attempts "to clarify" its intent...
Through the streets of Saigon, and in the dark approaches to dozens of towns and military installations throughout South Viet Nam, other Vietnamese made their furtive way, intent on celebrating only death? and on launching the Year of the Monkey on its malign way before it was many hours old. After the merrymakers had retired and the last firecrackers had sputtered out on the ground, they struck with a fierceness and bloody destructiveness that Viet Nam has not seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than...