Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary fight. I'm going to ask him some technical questions about farming and I want real farmers to hear his answers. You have said that if the people of Colorado wanted a person who could do farm chores, they would have nominated Man Mountain Dean. You meant this as ridicule against every dirt farmer and his family in Colorado...
Five Principles, Two Protests. The Burmese could now tell, if they could not before, whom ex-Premier U Nu meant in his attack three weeks ago on unnamed "veritable sons of bitches for distant aunts" (TIME, Aug. 6). Now that the story was out in the open, the government admitted that it had quietly lodged two protests with Peking since last November; the first was brushed off, the second had gone unanswered even though, under the much-vaunted Panch Shila or Five Principles of India's Nehru, Burma and Red China had pledged to respect each other...
...been very funny, since Joffrey took the standard set-up of one male and three girls--starting off together, then each little ballerina getting her chance to dance alone with the man, and finally the latter liking his three girls so much that he keeps them all--and apparently meant to lampoon it. But somehow the number, danced by Lupe Serrano, Ruth Ann Koesum, Catherine Horn, and Scott Douglas, was just corny, and the saccharine music by John Field did not help...
...week's end the Times finally capitulated in its own way and in a long editorial explained that it meant no offense: "On the whole, it looks as though there were much to be said for our national habit of reading the books, looking at the pictures, listening to the music, and letting the personalities behind them get on with their job of being human beings as quietly as possible...
Reread Willa. Author Siebel's grim little slice of life has the troubling oppressiveness of a Grant Wood painting. Her portrait has a frame of iron, and within it poor Ella and all the rest do not have a chance because Julia Siebel never meant them to have one. Hatred for the harsh side of farm life is here, and hatred for the narrowness of small-town life, but it comes out as a pathological hatred instead of a meaningful one and Ella Beecher seems not so much tragic as vegetable. The publishers compare this embittered tale with...