Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With toothy smiles all around, the national chairmen of the Democratic and Republican parties met last week in Washington's Mayflower hotel, shook hands almost as though they meant it, signed a pledge against playing dirty campaign pool this year-and immediately began whacking each other with the pool cues...
...Meant to Probe...
...putting a soil bank proposal on the same bill with countless unsound economic policies, Benson charged that the Democrats "laid a trap for Eisenhower." A veto meant he was voting against his own plan, but, on the other hand, he could not support the bill without repudiating all his previous policies. "This type of political dealing has been typicial of the Democrats attitude toward the farm problem," he said...
...Path: 1) Right knowledge, 2) Right intention, 3) Right speech, 4) Right conduct, 5) Right livelihood, 6) Right effort, 7) Right mindfulness, 8) Right concentration. At the end is nirvana. But Buddha, who talked not at all of God, refused ever to go into details about what is meant by nirvana. His dying words underlined his emphasis on human effort rather than on grace or magic: "Work out your salvation with diligence...
...maintained through the body of the race, rose methodically to 34 and the shell crept steadily ahead. Despite a final burst, which took the stroke to 38, the Crimson fell behind--apparently spent by an effort which in any other year and against any other crew would have meant victory...