Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pity that the nine U.S. Protestant churchmen visiting Russia [March 26] could not extend their route to the nightmarish arctic hell of Vorkuta, where so many of their colleagues are practicing high treason by holding secret religious services. Is this what Metropolitan Nikolai meant when he said, "We must now forgive and forget...
Dissenting also was the man who framed the Smith Act, Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith, who says that Congress never meant to write off state sedition laws. He has already introduced legislation that would put them back in force...
...physical education student, but he had already decided that he had "very little athletic ability." ("I'm not well coordinated," he explains.) So he was doubly surprised to find that Counsilman, who was a national breaststroke champion in 1948 when he was a student at Ohio State, meant what he said. The coach had seen something "intangible" in Breen's awkward splashing, and the boy seemed just the one to help Counsilman test some of his unorthodox theories about swimming styles...
...view. Main feature: an expansive wood deck, surrounded by oak and eucalyptus trees and overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Wurster-designed house in Stockton, which won the second merit award, is a simple rectangle with large overhanging roof, "a hot-climate house with a hat on it. It was meant to be a house for older people to retire in with dignity. It has big rooms but few of them, and it is easy to live in. There is nothing cute about...
...Crimson suffered three temporary casualties in the game, which under rugby's no-substitution rule meant finishing with only 12 men on the field...