Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, Winston Churchill's office composed a precautionary reprise: "The Prime Minister wishes it known that the possibility of German attempts at an invasion by no means has passed away. The fact that the Germans now are putting out rumors that they do not intend an invasion should be regarded with the double dose of suspicion which attaches to all their utterances. Our sense of growing strength and preparedness must not lend to the slightest relaxation of vigilance or moral alertness...
...Conference plan for keeping conscripts happy is simply to provide good entertainment. Usually pretty highbrow, the directors do not intend to try to force Greek drama on the soldiers. With plenty of music, roaring shows, the Conference sees a chance (with Government cooperation) to build up interest in good American theatre...
...political taboos whose strength more often than not proved illusory and whose defenders looked strong only in the minds of those attacking them. But what was the ultimate U. S. objective? And how far was it determined to go? Said General Motors Vice President James David Mooney: "If we intend to go to war, then we ought to publish the conditions that will provoke us into the war. We ought to quit telling the world that we won't fight under any circumstances. . . . Americans have too proud a tradition as fighters to endure a national policy that would brand...
...this question, Mussolini replied that he was 30 doing nothing but fulfilling the pledges that he had given Hitler."Europe's innocent bystanders, small of stature and short of hope, anxiously wondered whether II Duce would as faithfully fulfill the pledges he now gave them: "Italy does not intend to bring other people into the conflict. Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Egypt will take notice. . . ." The British Ministry of Information commented: "The Axis Powers have been prodigal of such assurances in the pastas Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg have learned to their...
Said Viscount Gort, commander of the B. E. F., after dodging a Nazi tank column in Flanders: "I am damned if I'll let the Germans capture me. I am willing to face out the matter of death, but I certainly do not intend to be paraded down Unter den Linden for the Germans to jeer...