Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the Spitzels (informers). "Achtung, Potsdam!" boomed RIAS, U.S. Military Government's radio station in Berlin. "We warn against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...
...things together, and that is real family life. That is what is wrong with everybody. They don't do things; they buy them at the five-&-ten. Everywhere we go, I try to show people how to do things together, in the family, which is the way God meant people to live...
...wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find 'fthisis' to learn that it meant tuberculosis...
...against Hitler, could produce such disastrous results, and Gandhi answered simply that if violent means were used the result was always bad. Sheean asked him if the physical world was illusion and Gandhi told him that that was an incorrect translation of the word Maya; he agreed that it meant "appearances," and added in a whisper: "God is in everything. Even in the stone. Even in the stone...
...reader is sure gonna have one, too, if he plunges any deeper into this indiscriminate flood of words. Baxter Bernstein recounts the anguish of a not-so-young Yank who, on the eve of World War II, feels bound to make a confession: although he has always meant to write a book that "would be reviewed by Edmund...