Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. and Britain were following a third course. There was no name for it yet, but it meant standing fast. When the Russians shut off food trains, the U.S. flew in what supplies it could. Standing fast could also mean arming Western food trains and leaving the Russians the choice of stopping them or not. In a speech at week's end, Winston Churchill said: "It is our heart's desire that peace may be preserved, but we should by now have learned that there is no safety in yielding to dictators, whether Nazi...
...Down in the river bed, trucks were lumbering through a ford and up a goat path, newly bulldozed, where 25-pounder guns had been hauled up during the morning. Toward 3 in the afternoon, the brigadier announced: 'The spaghetti is cooked and the birds aflying.' He meant that the artillery was ready and the Spitfires were aloft. On the skyline, four miles across the valley, the artillery opened up and the infantry jumped...
Tito might save himself by recanting and promising to be a good boy henceforth. Otherwise Yugoslav Communists had stern Cominform instructions to "change the Communist leaders in Yugoslavia." For Communists of Tito's position, such changes usually meant exile in haste, prison, or a firing squad...
...York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, in & around the Caribbean on vacation, got the key to San Juan from its lady mayor and a thumping, flag-waving welcome from the Puerto Ricans. To Dominicans later he confessed that some well-meant shouts of the Puerto Rican populace had been: "Viva O'Guardia...
...turned thumbs down on prefabricated housing ("not successful"). Last week, after intervention by Housing Administrator Raymond Foley and Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, the committee handed out 58,000 tons of steel to prefabs. To Lustron (which got all but 10,000 tons of the allocation), that meant 4,800 houses...