Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew that better than Harry Truman. He was determined to carry out his program to the letter. That meant enactment of the social props and programs that comprise the new orthodoxy-with the significant addition of civil rights...
...Harry le Souriant." Abroad, Harry Truman's victory had raised spirits and stilled fears. Europe felt new confidence that the strong hand of the U.S. would continue to bear it up. To the French, the victory of "Harry le souriant' (smiling Harry) meant that the U.S. people had moved closer to them in spirit. In Greece, Athenian grey-marketeers renamed the street where they sell U.S. goods "Uncle Harry Street." Said a Tel Aviv newspaperman: "He is a simple human being, a man of the people. We would rather trust our fate to him than to the cool...
...after Christmas, the great Berlin airlift was six months old. By then, it had carried 700,000 tons of supplies to besieged Berlin. That meant an average of 3,800 tons in an average of 550 flights a day (one-third by Britain's R.A.F.). Last week, Air Secretary Symington said that in 1949, when new planes are put into operation, the daily total can be doubled. So far, 17 Americans and seven Britons have been killed in airlift accidents...
Many of them had already tried other work. Said McCormick's Robert W. Henderson: "I'd seen war and I was selling paint. Not that selling paint was wrong, but it wasn't enough." Former Lawyer James W. Angell "never felt law meant anything. Here I'm in touch with the basic issues of life." At Chicago Theological Seminary, Dennis Bennett, 31, said: "I was seven years in business, married, with two kids. I finally realized that I had never found a channel of expression...
...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...