Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could a government ruling in the name of the working class compel workers to work? How could a minority of the nation force the whole nation to accept the regimentation inseparable from planning? Communists, realistic and ruthless, had answered: by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which in reality meant the dictatorship of the secret police. Socialists, well-intentioned and opportunistic, had evaded this problem in theory; now, in practice, history had brought them face to face with...
...Labor Government was jubilant. If the Edge Hill vote meant anything, it meant that the socialists could still count on the workers to give the Labor Party a loyal working-class vote regardless of conditions. Moreover, Prime Minister Attlee, rightly or wrongly, believed that the Labor Government had hit the bottom of the chute, and that its standing with the voters, since it could scarcely go lower, must go up. Noting that Labor has not lost any seat in by-elections since 1945, London's Daily Herald burbled: "It is more than 70 years since a Government has enjoyed...
...leaves this film convinced that Mai Zetterling (who recently appeared in the Swedish film Torment) will be worth watching unless the glamorizers ruin her; that Mr. Farrar is a personable leading man; that the makers of this picture meant very well; and that nothing at all revealing, or even particularly real, has happened on the screen...
Lana Turner, who may play Madame Bovary in the Hollywood version of Flaubert's famed provincial lady, got a well-meant tribute from Columnist Louella Parsons. "Lana," allowed Lolly, ". . . will be a Madame Bovary born to the part...
...past five years Harvard has been known as something less than a power in soccer. Not enough material and too little practice generally meant that Crimson teams were inexperienced equals carried along by a few stars; but two postwar years may have changed the scene...