Sentence:  The conductor 's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness , as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto , but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as <WSD>designed</WSD> , it did so with plenty of spring . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make or work out a plan for; devise