Word: mean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision did not mean that the U.S. economy was yet in the clear. The auto workers, electrical workers and rubber workers, to say nothing of John Lewis' coal miners, had been sitting back waiting to see what the board's findings would be. Now that they saw them, they would also have to make up their minds which way to jump. But the nation, only last week facing a strangling strike of 500,000 men in steel, momentarily could breathe a little more easily. It had before it, in the board's report, a comprehensive formula...
...selfish interests don't know-they don't care-what these words mean. They are using those words only because they want to turn the American people against the programs which the people want, and need, and voted for. We can afford them, we ought to have them, and we will have them...
...late admiring critic, Lawrence Gilman, he was a composer who could "mold a beautiful or touching or heroic tonal image, and then distort it by scrawling a bad joke somewhere on its surface." He was a man who composed a great symphonic poem about his own sometimes mean and usually money-grabbing life and called it Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life...
...moment, the crowd of 130 newsmen thought they had something. What did he mean by the word "surrender?" He meant exactly what he said, replied the President crisply. The war of nerves is slacking off very decidedly, the President said: that's just as plain as it possibly can be and I am hopeful that the war of nerves will cease and that everybody will get in the mood for world peace and then it will just take a short time to get everything worked out as it should be. Then the United Nations will function as it should...
...beamed: "Cowboy films and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy." I asked him if he liked Charlie Chaplin. "Modern Times," said Tito, imitating the scene where Chaplin goes berserk and runs around twitching two wrenches. "He has made several since that one," I said. "In one he imitates Hitler." "You mean The Great Dictator?" inquired Tito blandly...