Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont's Republican George Aiken and Florida's Democratic Spessard Holland dissenting) with a bill that Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, the committee's chairman, jauntily declared "gave the President everything he asked for, and added some ideas of our own." What Louisiana's Ellender apparently meant was that the bill gave the President the soil bank program (backed by an authorization of $1.2 billion) that he had asked for as a cure for surpluses. But the conference committee had coupled with it an utterly contradictory, surplus-producing, one-year restoration of mandatory supports for five basic...
Said fast-talking Mikoyan: "We will help you all we can to build up your own great oil industry," and a squad of "Soviet oil experts" stepped forth with figures to show Indian planners what their boss meant. On their side, the Indians agreed to set up a state trading corporation next month for the sole purpose of doing business with Communist countries. To organize Soviet purchases of Indian commodities, Russia's former Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Vasily Sergeev is now installed, with the title of Economic Counselor and a large staff, in the Soviet Union...
Unfortunately, however, two heats meant that the final placings would have to be determined on times. The officials had gotten themselves into this mess through faulty timing, and now they were opening the way for more confusion. And they had not long to wait. In the last heat, Pedro Galvao of S.M.U. (58.8) beat Lyn Meiring of Oklahoma (58.7) by a stroke. Since the officials had announced that the finals would be determined on times, however, the place judges had to give way to the timers. Meiring had to be given second place over Galvao...
...Prime Minister said: "None of us know the reason." But his question, according to Glubb, was: "Can you leave Immediately?" Glubb asked what he meant by immediately. The Premier's answer: "Say at 4 o'clock this afternoon. We will give you an airplane." Glubb balked at that. "No, sir," he said. "I have lived here for 26 years, and I cannot leave at two hours' notice." The Premier suggested: "You can leave your wife behind." They compromised on 7 a.m. the next...
Barring an unexpected turnabout in the next day's free figure trials, this meant that Tenley Albright had beaten Carol Heiss again. No one else was close. "Oh, the judges like Tenley." whispered Mrs. Heiss to a companion. "They always do." Then she searched out Tenley Albright's mother, Elin, and congratulated her. "We've just lost the championship," Mrs. Heiss told newsmen. "I have already congratulated Tenley's mother, and I asked her to put it on record that I congratulated her this year one day ahead of time...