Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surfaced, surprised and strangling, he gasped in the enormous drama of his new position. The ship, already out of earshot, went trudging remorselessly on her way. Inspired, Tomas Montanez did not even cry out. He saw a tern flying overhead and told himself, fiercely, that this meant good luck. He began to swim, and pray, and hoard his strength...
Deadline in March. Robert Schuman's way of summing up the situation, at the level of the deliberate commonplace, made his government's crisis sound almost trivial. But Frenchmen knew what he meant. And they knew that if Schuman failed in his efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists...
...vote meant that British doctors, already patella-deep in socialized medicine, were not enthusiastic about getting in up to their necks. At present, 17,000 of Britain's 21,000 general practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes...
...countries truer to Marx, where control of The Machine has actually been taken away from the capitalist, the most extraordinary growth occurred in the meaning of "control." Control of production by "the state," in place of ownership by private people, turned out to need bolstering up. It meant control of speech, thought and personal life. It was not the freed worker who replaced the capitalist; it was the cop, the spy, the bureaucrat...
...renewed winter offensive, the Communists had at last fully disrupted the railroad between Peiping and General Wei's headquarters in Mukden. That meant that there was no longer a land corridor into Manchuria for the Nationalists. Ninety-nine percent of the land area of Manchuria was in the hands of the Reds; 1% was in General Wei's. That 1% consisted principally of the cities of Mukden, Changchun, Kirin and Szepingkai-dwindling islands of resistance. What remained for the Communist armies under General Lin Piao was simply...