Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Washington learned that Dean Acheson really meant what he had said. Those in the know were sure that his successor would be lean, articulate, 51-year-old Robert A. Lovett, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air and an old friend of Marshall...
...Cultural Organization. It was dedicated to the proposition that "since wars begin in the minds of men . . . the peace must therefore be founded . . . upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind." Few at its Philadelphia conclave disagreed with that proposition. Fewer still were sure they knew what it meant...
...Stalin, came down in a fiery oratorical chariot to rescue the Catholic Church. By the grace of Togliatti, the Italian Assembly last week put into the Republic's Constitution this clause: "The Roman Catholic apostolic religion is the only religion of the State." Approval meant that 1) the Republic would stand by the Lateran Treaty which Mussolini made with the Vatican; 2) every Italian would be taxed to support the Church; and 3) education would be Catholic...
...first, General Chen had stalled and made concessions. Outnumbered, he had promised to curb his troops, relax monopoly controls. He had sent another Miss Hsieh (whose full name meant Thanks Moon Angel) to the radio to assure the public-incorrectly-that nobody had been killed when the gendarmes fired into the crowd on the first day. Moon Angel was just as well known as Snow Red. She was a Taipeh lady doctor, locally famous for championing relief and rehabilitation for displaced prostitutes, who had beaten Snow Red for election as Formosa's woman delegate to the National Assembly...
...Asia. After several such references, up rose handsome, jut-jawed Sirdar Kumar Jagjit Singh, an observer for the India League of America. He suspected that these "dark hints of a new imperialism" referred to the U.S., and "would the delegates please be less vague and name the country meant?" None...