Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State visited, the Middle East. This week John Foster Dulles, accompanied by Harold Stassen, began a 20-day flying, fact-finding tour of the area. Dulles emphasized as he left the U.S.: "I shall bring with me no specific plans or programs, nor do I intend to ask the governments I visit for any decisions. I shall listen intently...
...wedding day is rainy, a lucky omen in Brazil, and the wedding night so blissful that Author Machado slyly warns the reader: "Don't worry, I do not intend to describe it; human language does not possess forms proper to so great a task." Lucky in love, Bento is also lucky at law, partly because good friend Ezekiel shunts cases his way. And when Capitu bears a son, Bento insists on naming the child Ezekiel...
...about Willie Moretti's complaint about his $286,000 bribe? Dickerson knew all about it-for Willie had called at Dickerson's home (in company with Joe Adonis and brother Salvatore Moretti) and had cried, "Tell the governor and the attorney general that I don't intend to take this laying down." The governor, Dickerson went on, had been "shocked" to hear of the bribe and had given Willie no comfort. But for all of this, Dickerson was clearly no friend of Investigator Stamler. Stamler, said Dickerson, had taken credit for work done by the state police...
...leaders, however, already have a big head start and valuable experience in poly production, which involves ultra-high pressures (equal to the pressure in the barrel of a 5-in. Navy antiaircraft gun when it is fired). Says Bakelite's President Bunn: "We have the lead and we intend to keep...
...Ninety-five per cent of our student body," says Fuerbringer, "are youngsters who intend to enter the church, and do. They know exactly why they're in school, and exactly where they're going. I should guess that in a nonsectarian college it's the other way around: 95% don't know why they're there, or where they're going...