Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl Godwin. "Mr. President," he began, "I have a question which is obviously planted." Harry Truman laughed at the frank admission and told him to go ahead. Godwin explained that he had two friends in the theater business and they thought there was a great revival in vaudeville-which meant re-employment for a lot of people. "That is a planted question," said Godwin, "so please say something nice about...
...issue-statism. Asked at his press conference for his own definition, Truman was offhand. It's simply another one of the scare-words, he declared. He had looked it up himself in several dictionaries and none of them were in agreement. But others seemed to know what it meant-notably New York's John Foster Dulles (see below...
...luncheon on his 60th birthday, the Republicans of Parkman sang "Happy Birthday, dear Bob." At Lakewood's Westlake Hotel at a gathering of 400 clubwomen, a lady soloist sang Thank God for a Garden, coming down hard on the last line: "Thank God for you." She meant the Senator, she explained...
...Passel of Hatfields. Nobody in Seattle had to be told what the decision meant. As work on B-50s and Strato-cruisers ran out, the Boeing factories would probably become ghost shops. Last week when Air Secretary Stuart Symington dropped in on Seattle enroute to Alaska, the city's leading citizens closed in on him like a passel of Hatfields ambushing a lone McCoy...
...Intelligence work" meant almost anything in World War II, from picking up bedroom gossip in Lisbon to sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...