Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion for its bucolic setting and display of fruits, vegetables, paintings, canned goods, baked goods, flowers, etc. was TIME Inc.'s seventh annual Country Fair-an event that has come to mean a good deal to us here as a way of exhibiting our extracurricular handiwork to one another and having it judged. This friendly competition began the autumn after Pearl Harbor because so many of our suburban members had taken to raising Victory Gardens and wanted to compare their produce with that of coworkers. The first fair was warmly received, and the succeeding ones have been no less...
...regime. Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin's sole currency. He agrees not to insist on postponement of the West's plans for Western Germany, but wants it recorded as Russia's "insistent wish." The Russians certainly mean to do everything they can to delay Western German recovery. Stalin may have decided to concede the point and then fuzz up the deal on technicalities-an old Kremlin custom...
...miscarriage of justice . . . [She was] one of the most sadistic in the whole group. There is no way to compute the number who wanted to testify against her because: i) she was a woman; 2) she was the commandant's wife; 3) she was just so goddamn mean...
...outline of six "steps" that would beat inflation. Most of them are about bringing "able and honest people to Washington, "men and women of integrity", or about "vigorously supporting our American system of free opportunity." I've pondered on those steps awhile, and I don't think they mean much, in or out of context. But then again, you know what my mother says...
...they have something even worse. They call it "Expulsion." The booklet says that "a student who is expelled can never be readmitted and his name is expunged from the records of the University." This surely is a ghastly punishment, but what does it mean? If someone's name is expunged, and then somebody walks into University Hall and wants to know if you ever went to Harvard, what happens? Do all the deans look blank and say they never heard of him? Do they say, "Yes, but we can't utter his name--it was expunged from the records...