Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daniel meant not that the laws were unalterable," said the President, "but that the Medes and the Persians believed in keeping their contracts. We have been dealing with a great power that does not believe in keeping its contracts. Iran believes in keeping its contracts. The United States believes in keeping its contracts...
They fired his imagination. He quit school when he was eleven to sell newspapers and run a kids' crap game-a project which meant paying off the Irish cop on the beat. He soon graduated to sterner enterprise. When he was 17, he was charged with assault and robbery, but the charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession...
...disagreed, although they were being more openminded about the subject than they had been. If the Germans would honestly abide by security controls, the French were willing to let them have an annual steel production of 11,500,000 tons. It was not clear, however, just what the French meant by "security...
...Time for Christmas. The full-length portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt is the picture that dominates the book. "I did not want my husband to be President," she states, probably to the surprise of thousands. "As I saw it, this meant the end of any personal life of my own . . . The turmoil in my heart and mind was rather great." Nonetheless, "I never mentioned my feelings on the subject...
...Melbourne Cup race were wearing black armbands, and leading the pack down the stretch was his own horse, a rank outsider named Nimblefoot. When Craig told about his dream, everybody got a good laugh; one bookmaker offered him odds of ?1,000 to a cigar. But it meant nothing to Owner Craig when Nimblefoot, his jockey wearing a black armband, won the big race. Owner Craig had died the day before...