Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject to a commission that included Russia. Otherwise the situation would end in the servitude of Greece. (Later, Gromyko?who has conscientiously learned to speak excellent English even though he persists in speaking Russian most of the time?poked a pencil at the translator and said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that the Communist dogma was The Truth and would...
...Attlee Approach. Attlee had other plans. Already dangerously low imports would be further cut-and that meant even less food and fripperies for austerity-greyed Britons. Not only luxury imports, like films and tobacco, would be reduced to save dollars, but raw material purchases as well. That meant a further danger to British production which alone, in the long run, can get Britain the dollars she needs...
Britain would reduce her armies and overseas commitments. That meant further shrinkage of Britain's world prestige, and even more world responsibility for the U.S. It also meant that Britain would contribute less to Europe's general recovery under the Marshall plan. Britain could no longer afford to share Germany's occupation costs on a 50-50 dollar basis with the U.S.; the British suggested that they pay their share in pounds...
...raucous Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, ODT director, issued an ultimatum: rail shipments of coal would be embargoed unless something was done about the laggard cars within twelve hours. Canadian bigwigs hurried to Washington, agreed to cut the adverse balance to 8,000 cars of all types, even if it meant returning them empty...
...exciting to hear anti-Semitism discussed openly in a movie. But the chances are that this well-meant film will exasperate at least as many anti-Semites as it dissuades. It is gruesome to watch such a character as that played by Robert Ryan. But his hatred is so extravagant that most semiconscious anti-Semites will just comfortably set themselves apart from...