Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known he had not been consulted on many points. Publicly he exclaimed: "I have never known, under any Prime Minister I have served, the qualities of courage, integrity and flair more clearly represented than in our present Prime Minister." Commented the Economist: "Remembering, as one was meant to remember, that Mr. Butler's last Prime Minister was Sir Winston, [this is] an example of how to damn a leader by praise that nobody will believe...
...bedeviling propinquity, the drunken and the drugged exhibit spectral moments of love and convulsive moments of guilt, make accusations that are in effect confessions, go in for cruelties that are spewings of self-hate. Endlessly they go on saying the same things, while yet blurting out things not meant to be said at all; over and over they assume the same perverse or posturing roles, while betraying some corner of their actual selves...
...Question. To hold the hill meant shielding the Eighth Army's thin defense line. The brass decided that Pork Chop was worth the price. For three days and two nights, a succession of rifle companies of the U.S. 7th Division slogged into the meat-grinder to counter waves of Chinese reinforcements. Battling for Pork Chop's shattered trenches and bunkers, some 900 Americans and South Koreans were killed or wounded, along with 3,000 Chinese. In 48 hours some 85,000 U.S. artillery rounds, plus uncounted enemy shells, blasted Pork Chop's eroded slopes -a display...
Several years ago Everett House residents livened its sign-ins by using a colored pencil system to indicate the calibre of their dates. A yellow sign-in signified "intellectual conver-sation," green meant "walk and eat," blue indicated "movie and dancing," and red "a perfectly swell time." A purple signature meant "all this and Heaven...
Imperative Emotion. But for Sullivan, "function" was not bare-boned utilitarianism. Once the problem is analyzed, he insisted, "We must heed the imperative voice of emotion." This meant exalting the loftiness of the building as "the very open organ-tone of its appeal." For Sullivan, the organ-tone required its grace notes as well: the wrought-iron and terracotta decoration he lavished on his buildings, inside and out (opposite...