Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the British were some what mollified, but they were less than happy about the continued U.S. pressure for a resumption of negotiations, which in effect meant bringing back and dealing with the exiled archbishop. Just what the State Department was doing about this delicate situation was not apparent to the public eye. But the key point was clear: the U.S. cannot afford further deterioration of the Western position on Cyprus...
...like enforced integration any more than I like enforced segregation. If I have to choose between the United States Government and Mississippi, then I'll choose Mississippi ... If it came to fighting, I'd fight for Mississippi against the United States, even if it meant going out into the street and shooting Negroes...
Beer replied that he knew about this. He even knew it was meant to be something like "Yes, that's all very well, but the Athenians did lose the war." From there the discussion was meant to go into the relative merits of the democratic system...
Symbol v. Symbol. Chevrolet Dealer McKay and Lawyer Morse were never meant to be friends. McKay slogged his way up through Oregon's G.O.P. ranks, from mayor of Salem to the state senate to governor. Morse, propelled by his erratic genius, soared to position virtually independent of party. He served with distinction as dean of the University of Oregon Law School, later entered upon a glittering career under Franklin Roosevelt, first as chairman of the Railway Emergency Board, then as a member of the War Labor Board. In 1944 he ran for the U.S. Senate from Oregon...
Last week the U.S. Government announced that it would pay out to all czarist creditors the $9.1 million so collected. Bondholders have until March 31 to apply for their share. With U.S. nationals' claims against Russia totaling $425 million, this meant that the bondholders would get about 2? on the dollar...