Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intend to make it utterly impossible for the enemy to move his forces in the daytime, and very unpleasant and dangerous at night...
...about. He explained:"My idea is to humanize the forecasts. . . . People don't give a damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They want to know how they're going to feel tomorrow. So this summer we intend to use phrases like 'fairly comfortable' and 'uncomfortable.' " Where another fore caster would rely on the standard "increasing cloudiness and warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which...
...agreed with Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin, last week in the U.S. , that there must be frequent consultations with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers. But, though the Dominions intend otherwise, his tone clearly showed that he was thinking of a Commonwealth centered in London, was uncertain whether he would get it. Said he: "The Mother Country-I must ask leave to use this name-anyhow, I think it is rather dangerous to plunge into a new nomenclature and I am not sure that anything like the Elder Sister Country would be a success. There was the old song...
Another fact is that for some soldiers Patton is a fierce inspiration. General Eisenhower, with too few battle-seasoned top commanders, obviously does not feel he can get along without the two-gun General, and does not intend...
Last week the end of the battle was near. Parsons refused to pay an additional $676, faced jail. Said he firmly: "I do not intend to have Bobby destroyed...