Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snapped Byrnes: "It is obvious that the Soviet delegate does not intend to permit these invitations to be sent until he has satisfied the purpose, whatever it is, he has in mind." Molotov now attempted a diversion; he suggested that the Foreign Ministers discuss Germany while the Deputies worked over the rules of procedure...
Lady Astor's 27-year-old son John, standing for Parliament as his mother had, tried a different approach. "I do not intend to bring drink or morals into politics," said...
...Wants the Goods? How big, then, is the postwar market? BAE estimated that only about 2.8 million people definitely intend to buy cars in 1946; another million will probably buy. Another 2.6 million plan to buy a house this year; a half million will probably buy one. But they plan to pay only $5,020, a price few houses are selling at. For other consumer durable goods, 9.9 million consumers expect to spend $320 each ($3 billion in all). But they expect to spend only about 25% from liquid assets; of the rest, 40% will come from current income...
Clark's first concern was food. He informed Marshal Ivan S. Konev that he intended to raise the daily calorie level to 1,550 as soon as possible. But, he added, "I know how I would feel if we had been in here first and you came in and immediately raised the food level. It would seem like a deliberate slap in the face. For that reason, I intend to do it gradually." Ever since then, Clark has hammered away at the Russians to maintain decent rations...
...easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with a red carnation in his lapel, sat approvingly by her side, Mrs. Matsuda proclaimed: "I intend to carry out my husband's ideas though it may entail considerable danger to my person and some resistance from among my henchmen...