Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...export and transportation controls, and empowered the Administration to limit the use of grain in distilling. It ignored all of President Truman's requests for such heavy weapons as rationing, wage and price controls, compulsory allocations. Allocations could be made only through "voluntary" agreements with industry. This meant, cried Minority Leader Alben Barkley, that the President would have "to go out huckstering among business" to get agreements...
Free-Trader Pauley said he did not think that grain speculation had caused higher food prices-"even though certain loose charges to that effect have been tossed about by some political parties and candidates." Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson asked blandly if by any chance he meant President Truman? "No," snapped Ed Pauley, "I mean Harold Stassen...
...meant that, had Molotov been seemingly conciliatory, the U.S. would have been forced to continue wading through the marsh of statistics, accusations and debaters' petty triumphs. Although Marshall and Bevin wanted German and Austrian treaties with the Russians, they knew as well as Molotov that the real purpose of the London meeting was not to confer but to propagandize. Marshall's words and tactics at the table made it clear that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians...
...religious faith. Dr. Tiebout believes that it was, essentially, a kind of spiritual awakening. Soon afterward, the patient joined Alcoholics Anonymous and quit drinking for good. He said to the psychiatrist some time later: "You did something to me when you made me sign that card. I knew you meant business. I made up my mind I wasn't going to run my own case any longer. . . . [Then] I felt calmer and quieter inside and have ever since...
Most of Lorca's poems were composed in the simplest Spanish verse, about basic Spanish emotions - love, pride and the awareness of death-and were meant to be sung to the guitar. For years he disliked to have them printed. Many of them were - and still are - sung by people who never saw them in print and could not read them if they...