Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth a Sunday try. "I think it's damned healthy," said Minneapolis Contractor Don Knutson as he thought about the visit. "Whether it's Government or business, you've got to evaluate your competition." Added Mel Costa, a proprietor of a Detroit steakhouse: "If he means peace, I say O.K., let him come. If he doesn't mean peace, the hell with him. We got to show these people we mean business...
...Norton; $3.95), they meant the title for the hero: a hard-palmed U.S. engineer working in Southeast Asia, who stood in sharp contrast to bumbling American officials abroad. A thesis writer might well peer into how the nation has curiously misused the title ever since. It has come to mean the very bumblers whom the authors denounced. The "Ugly American" is now a villain...
...were forever getting into scrapes; even the Army had not made disciplined men of them. "They won't listen to me," Bing complained, "and it burns me up." Even his sons' attitude toward money, said the multimillionaire Groaner, seemed silly in the extreme. "It doesn't mean a thing to Gary-and Philip, Dennis and Linny are very tight, so tight it horrifies...
...engine, which accounts for $90 million of its $100 million contract with the Air Force. The J-93-3 is conventionally fueled, is scheduled to go into both North American's B70 and its F108 fighter. Officials insist that the boron cutback itself does not mean a cutback in the B70 bomber program, but only an alteration in the bomber to make it wholly conventionally fueled, and that the cutback has no relation to the F-108, which was programed to use conventional fuels all along. But many aircraft men feel that both programs, which barely got into...
...wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have a fix on naked physical strip-downs ; the book offers at least three.) But adoption would mean discovery of Eva's false documents, and so she breaks out of the snug roundhouse and into an office job at a nearby munitions plant...