Word: intendancy
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None of this is to say that Sylvian Plath did not want to die. Death possessed her more than life. But that in 1963 she intended only to flirt with death, to retreat from it, absolved by it, clears her poetry of much of the bitterness her suicide read into it, and allows the poetry an inkling of self-love in all the self-hatred. It means that it is no longer possible not to read her anymore, especially her last and most fleshless skeletons, now that there is the slender reed of her self-love to sustain the reader...
...ground, seven-to-one in aircraft and six-to-one in ships in the north. "The Russians are very busy displaying raw military power on the northern flank," reports TIME Correspondent John Mulliken, who recently toured the region. "It is a significant example of how the Soviets intend to use the pressure of their operational armed forces to achieve their political policies in the 1970s and 1980s...
...Soviet navy has staged big exercises in the Norwegian Sea, making the point that Norway, with no land connection to the rest of NATO, is at the mercy of whichever country rules the waves. Johan Jorgen Hoist, research director of the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute, warns that the Soviets intend "to push their naval defense line outwards to Iceland and the Faeroes," which could turn the Norwegian Sea into what he calls "a Soviet lake...
...caught in the middle of the contemporary value crisis. On the one side are his parents, people of stamina and principle, who have weathered 50 years of marriage. On the other side is Charley's son, who flaunts his liberated liaison with a girl he doesn't intend to wed, and who upbraids his father for choosing durability at the cost...
...agreement. The talks were bogging down over West Berliners' travel rights. Brandt is believed to have pointed out that the East Germans will have to be more flexible if the second phase is to be completed before Christmas. Until the Berlin problem is wrapped up, Brandt does not intend to submit his nonaggression treaties with Moscow and Warsaw to the Bundestag for ratification. The Russians are eager to get both treaties formally approved as a prelude to the convening of a European security conference...