Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, it had proved to many once-skeptical Germans, French, Swedes, that the U.S. meant business. From Germany TIME Correspondent Lawrence Laybourne cabled...
...Haifa, Israeli security police hovered anxiously about the new mediator. From Stockholm, Countess Bernadotte spoke to her husband's aide by shortwave radio. Said she: "Give my best to Ralph Bunche. I know what he meant to my husband." Said Mrs. Bunche in Manhattan: "I feel very sad about this appointment ... I can't help but have fears for him as long as he's in that troublesome zone...
...years, Chilean women had seen bills for women's suffrage introduced in Congress, had watched them languish and die. This time they meant business. Led by sleekly coiffured Rosa ("Mitty") Marckmann de González Videla, 41, wife of the President, they determinedly celebrated Women's Suffrage Week, felt sure that a new bill before the Chamber of Deputies would both live and become...
...times seemed barely able to follow a score ("C minor! C minor!" he would scream-then, quietly, "It is C minor, isn't it?"). Once during his class at the Rio Conservatory, a girl fainted. Next day Villa-Lobos posted a sign-and students knew he meant it: "Fainting in class not allowed...
...beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Say the Protestants: "The fuller Biblical doctrine that God created the world out of nothing is not here developed." Say the Catholics: "Both the Hebrew word and the context show that a real creation, i.e., a making out of nothing, is meant...