Word: intendancy
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Although MacLeod will be the only Presbyterian minister in an assembly that contains 26 Anglican bishops, he does not intend to be a spokesman for his faith, since, as he puts it, "I have not been famous for always saying the same thing as the Church of Scotland." Indeed not-and if anything characterizes Sir George's career, it is contrariness. As a captain of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during World War I, he won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre for gallantry-but later became one of Britain's most vociferous pacifists...
John Rawls, professor of Philosophy and sponsor of the resolution, said last night he was disappointed at its defeat, but entirely satisfied that the Faculty had finally had a chance to debate the question of deferments. The matter is "settled" and he does not intend to raise it again before the Faculty...
...idea of making a merger offer to the Times. Then it decided against the move. "The obsequies pronounced by some commentators are premature," an editorial in the Guardian observed. "We differ from some others in that we are attempting to resolve our problems without recourse to mergers. We intend to keep the Guardian as a strong, separate and independent newspaper." The promise moved one Guardian reporter to confident hyperbole: "If the Guardian comes down because of the squeeze, the government will...
...Free Democrats intend to hack away at the joints where basic Christian Democratic-Socialist differences have been papered over in favor of the coalition, and to concentrate their attack on any signs of political difference. Differences there are sure to be. The two parties of the coalition are still far enough apart to provide considerable checks and balances on each other's actions...
...Gaulle, perhaps at a cost of some of Bonn's close dependence on the U.S. Says Willy Brandt: "In Washington, France and Germany are stronger when they have good relations than when each stands alone." Still, both Kiesinger and Brandt consider themselves friends of the U.S., do not intend Germany to become a less faithful member of NATO...