Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously it would be untenable for a contemporary statesman to base concrete territorial demands on the Bible. But Begin often uses biblical allusions to support a Jewish historical claim-and the Administration does not intend to be caught unaware if he starts to cite the Good Book. Shortly after his election, he said he might discuss biblical references with the President at their first meeting. "He knows the Bible by heart," Begin told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, adding modestly, "I also know some parts...
...American carriers on the New York-to-London run, Pan Am and TWA, intend to announce their own plans for Skytrain-cheap travel soon, perhaps next week. The plans will be closely scrutinized by other airlines, especially those flying the hotly competitive North Atlantic routes, where four out of ten seats are empty on an average scheduled flight. Though neither Pan Am's nor TWA's packages will be identical to Laker's, they will both offer just about everything Skytrain does, plus a few things more...
...include exchange students." Adds Mary di Giogia, 21, who just graduated from St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J.: "I think the directive was aimed at those students who go to Italy and don't study but just live there and sometimes cause trouble. We intend to go and study...
...fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded themselves in a citadel where everyone else was below them"), ideology ("I am a capitalist and I don't intend to change"), even China ("I think there was maybe something good about Mao when he sent the ministers out to do something in the fields...
...hate violence so much," he tells a colleague, "I don't intend to let anybody practise it on me with impunity." When an enemy on the force confesses aloud an urge to "rearrange" Laidlaw's face, Laidlaw replies: "You should fight that. It's called a death-wish." As Mcllvanney pieces him together, Laidlaw emerges as a jumble of contradictions, a sensitive, intelligent soul performing brutal, repetitive work. Indeed, some of Laidlaw's ruminations sound like heavier luggage than a functioning police man ought to carry: "What's murder but a willed absolute, an invented...