Word: mean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors and the trainers thought Jim Kenary was ready for more than three minutes of action today, and any sustained play by Adrenalin Jim should mean a working air attack to set off the ground effort. For the first time since Virginia the first four tackles were declared ready for more than scattered work, and for the first time since Dartmouth the center squad has two men, experienced at the position, equipped for play. Tighter backing up and more effective line blocking should result...
...main job of the review board is to hear appeals from men who have been found "disloyal" by the FBI and their own departments. Before these appeals can mean anything, the board must demand that the original Executive Order be tightened in several respects. As it stands, to take just one example, a department may fire an employee without revealing the charges against him. This has actually happened recently in the case of ten State Department employees. How can such men appeal, beyond calling in friends and high-school football coaches to testify to their fine characters...
Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. In Knoxville, Tennessee, the bus waited half an hour while company officials decided what to do with Wright. He finally kept his set and spent a night with eyes glued to the road, looking for the road blocks that would mean vigilantes and mob violence. Police squad cars met the bus at each rest stop, but no questions were asked...
...shift mean that the British voters loved the Tories more? Hardly, since even the Tory leaders themselves were so unconfident of their party's principles that they had clutched socialism in a tepid, awkward embrace. Certainly, however, the British voter loved Labor less. A month ago, before the awakening, a TIME correspondent touring England by car ran into evidences of leaden disgust and shamed resignation. Said a Coventry bricklayer...
Cancer and embryonic tissues are the only ones that can be successfully transplanted from man to other animals. Does that mean that they are one & the same? Dr. Greene suspects that they may be; the only difference between cancerous and embryonic tissue that he has discovered is that embryonic tissue grows up and "differentiates," i.e., acquires a special function. It is possible, he suggests, that cancer is merely arrested embryonic tissue...