Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cigarets, a 20% increase in present income taxes. Democrats, who wanted business to pay the tab, wailed that veterans would be paying for their own bonus. Tom Dewey didn't say they wouldn't. But if the people wanted to vote a bonus, Dewey meant to see that they knew what it would cost...
...everyone who reads the popular magazines must know, "Lady in the Lake" is something new in movies. You're meant to identify yourself with a private detective through whose eyes you see the picture. If you have the misfortune to succeed, you'll wriggle when you hear yourself (Robert Montgomery) emitting hideous belly-laughs, tossing off smug wisecracks, and kissing a woman who can contort her mouth as if it were a landed cel. But the chances are you won't identify yourself with any body...
...turned to India's communal troubles, said that the Government had adopted one of Mohandas Gandhi's "most scatterbrained observations-'Leave India in God's hands.' " To Churchill that meant "leave her to anarchy." Vividly, and with heavy sarcasm, he summed it up: "Here are these people, in many cases of the same race, charming people, lightly clad, crowded together . . . and yet there is no intermarriage. . . . Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap. It is an astounding thing. Yet the Government expects in 14 months that there...
...Agriculture Department intends to end the present butter subsidy. That meant that the price of butter would soon be going...
...between boyhood and manhood had seen the collapse of four mighty states (the Russian and Austrian empires, Germany and France), heard the news almost with awe. For they grasped the fact that this was no merely political or military crisis; it was a crisis in Western civilization itself. It meant that the U.S. must take over from Britain the job of trying to solve the problem of contemporary history. The U.S. must, in Britain's place, consciously become what she had been, in reluctant fact, since the beginning of World War II: the champion of the remnant of Christian...