Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government has made a grave mistake in prosecuting and imprisoning the eleven bosses of the Communist Party of this great nation. The Smith Act of 1940 was never meant to be so misused as to restrict and virtually outlaw the belief and teachings of any free-thinking American political group. This action by bigoted Americans may well establish a malignant precedent of outlawing (or of purging) all individuals or groups of individuals who show disfavor with or oppose the political leaders of this land...
...also made it plain that he had not become CNO to preside over the liquidation of the Navy. As the first up-from-the-cockpit air admiral ever to achieve the top job of the service, he was for keeping naval aviation strong, and said so. None of this meant that he would have any easy time in restoring harmony. But it made Navy hotheads reconsider: Sherman, an officer of sharp intellect and steely determination, would probably be able to argue the Navy's case, within the limits of unification, better than anyone in the service...
...human welfare. In Herbert Lehman's dictionary, welfare meant "condition of health, happiness, prosperity." What was wrong with that? "This is the bogyman they have set up which is supposed to frighten the wits out of us." Did Dulles think of himself as a Paul Revere spreading the alarm? Scoffed Lehman: Dulles is "galloping backward...
There was only one hitch. Peter had been born blind in one eye. This handicap had kept him from going to a university after Eton. It had meant he had to have a special hunting gun designed for sighting with the left eye. And it had kept him from following his famed father's profession until the outbreak of World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last...
Princeton blocking in the center of the line was equally effective, although, not so spectacular. The Harvard secondary had to fill the holes, and since the buck series sent the tailback and wingback around end the backers-up had to hold back until the play was committed. This usually meant a five yard gain...