Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pourin' It On." It was plain that he intended to give Congress the business from now on. He returned to the White House with an avowal to "veto some more bills."* It was also plain that he meant to make campaign hay out of the 80th Congress' neglect of housing, reclamation, and health-insurance legislation. "Oh, I'm pourin' it on," he cried, "and I'm gonna keep pourin...
...Japanese caught and tortured Sybil to extract information about the underground. At one point they tied her to a stake and suspended her daughter Dawn over a blazing fire. Dawn shouted: "Mummy, I love you very much!" In the family code it meant that Dawn would not talk and Sybil must not talk either. The Japanese halted the fire torture in time, but they invented others for Sybil: beating, branding, dripping water. By the time a British captain found her at war's end, her skull, jaw and spine had been broken, her legs temporarily paralyzed...
...face of all the pious opposition, the Trois-Rivières aldermen decided that maybe the old by-law had better be enforced. That meant that, whatever their bathing costumes, boys & girls, men & wives, would swim alone-or else...
...which began life as a newspaperman's dream, would this week be just a newspaperman's memory. The idealistic Manhattan tabloid, which its founders meant to be the voice and the solace of pushed-around people, had never made the grade either as a business proposition or as a newspaper. One day this week, seven weeks after Attorney Bartley Crum and Newsman Joseph Barnes took it over from disheartened Marshall Field (TIME, May 10), PM became the New York Star...
...clean up. One of them was the National Professional Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, N.Y. He didn't feel very keen about it: he didn't dare lose it, yet there was little added glory for him in winning it. And the $1,900 prize money meant nothing to a man who had grossed $87,000 in his first season as a pro. In this frame of mind, Kramer last week nearly got his comeuppance...