Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Didn't Say . . ." Thompson had also referred to discussion by "the party's ranks" when he meant, he admitted under crossexamination, only the "ranks" of the national committee. "You agree that in the Communist Party 'the ranks' means the national leadership?" prodded the prosecutor. "I object, he didn't say he agreed," said Defense Lawyer Richard Gladstein. Judge Medina broke in: "That's right. It might have been-he assumed it was-it may have happened-it probably was the case-it was most likely so-but Mr. Thompson didn...
Superstitions sometimes cancel each other out. The Duke of Wellington, who believed that putting a pair of shoes on a table meant that their owner would be hanged, once fired a servant for jeopardizing a young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep...
...geisha dance on the soft straw mats. Suddenly the samisens began beating it out eight to the bar and one of the girls let go a gully-low bellow that crackled the paper walls. The girls were doing the Samisen Boogie, a red-hot indication of what people meant last week when they said that Japan was jazzu-crazy...
...into mint farming by way of potatoes. Jasper County had been a heavy onion grower. When that market slumped, Gehring bought 350 brush-covered acres at $60 an acre (now worth upwards of $375), turned the fields to potatoes, and gradually added to his holdings. "Potatoes," explains Gehring, "meant rotation. To get steady potato crops, I reached for more land. For a good rotation crop, I chose mint. Mint and potatoes meant irrigation and controlling more land to protect our water rights. So this thing just grew and grew...
...first quarter, President Moses Pendleton bravely tried to prod waiting buyers into action by boosting prices. Last week, conceding that his bluff had been called, Pendleton trimmed an average 9% off the price of fabrics for men's & women's clothes. That meant, the trade estimated, that men's suits next spring would be $2.50 to $5 cheaper...