Word: intendancy
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...three intend to go to law school after two years at Oxford...
...military men in the past were eager to return to their barracks. After, of course, they had replaced the civilian regime that they had ousted with one more to their taste. Increasingly, the more recent military leaders do not share that retiring attitude. Confident and cocky activists, they intend to hold on to the power they seize in order to lead their countries themselves. For better or worse, South America's political destiny rests more and more in the hands of a new kind of soldier turned national administrator...
...language transpositions from the Greek lack eloquence, spareness or precision, and the contemporary colloquialisms iar the ear. Lines like "You mean you intend to kill your mother?" produce wildly inappropriate laughter from an audience saturated with Freud. The prevailing style of the evening is that of neo-Shakespearean swashbuckling, and the barely adequate cast seems to relish all opportunities for bombast and comic clowning. The chorus resembles the witches from Macbeth multiplied. The murders might as well have been performed by Richard III. Elizabethan Greeks are a novelty all right, but they reduce the play to historical pageantry, horseplay...
...developing country to that of a fully developed society. We expect this society to offer adequate employment, to raise productivity to a satisfactory level, and to provide incomes that adequately meet the cost of living. This will eliminate Communism as a dan ger. In this country, we intend to face Communism by the only right method -social and economic measures, not by police methods...
...experience of many unscientific potheads; they achieved no "high" the first time. The only exception to this was a man who had expressed a desire to get high?and did so quickly. He became euphoric and laughed continuously. Yet one subject who had said that he did not intend to get high never did, even in successive sessions that included heavy doses of marijuana...