Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summoned his Cabinet to the White House to outline the message he meant to deliver. It would be brief, he said, with an outside limit of 25 minutes' reading time; it would sum up the accomplishments of his Administration to date, and hammer home the need for completing his program. Cabinet members and department heads were instructed to submit by Oct. 15 their lists of achievements and specific requests for new legislation. The man who would coordinate everything: Kevin McCann, 51. president-on-leave of Ohio's Defiance College, Ike's biographer (Man from Abilene), and currently...
...French word last week. Ood-ka meant U.D.C.A., the Union de Défense des Commercants et des Artisans. And U.D.C.A. meant Pierre Poujade, the rabble-rousing bookseller, and his ragtag crusade against taxes, politicians and parliamentary government. Though the Poujadists had entered more candidates (about 800) than any other party, had disrupted countless meetings with storms of vituperation and vegetables, and generally raised welts on the public weal, the experts had not taken young Pierre Poujade and his bray-voiced "antis" very seriously. But Poujade's bully-boy movement of shopkeepers, farmers, artisans and small businessmen...
Khrushchev made clear what he meant by U.S. "colonialism." "The colonialists give a dollar as 'aid' in order to get sub sequently ten dollars in return by exploiting the peoples who accept such aid ... How is the 'magnanimity' of the U.S. explained when it gives arms free to European countries, including Western Germany which is a highly developed country itself? It is to rivet with a golden chain not only the undeveloped but also the highly developed countries...
...race meant more to [Pollard] than it did to Howard," as Alexander tells it. "He'd just been married a few months before, [his wife] was carrying her first child, and he was flat broke. He'd get at least...
...Made Southpaw. Long before he knew what the word meant, Bill Russell was trained to be an athlete. But basketball was not part of the plan; in Monroe, La., where Bill was born, a Negro boy's prospects for first-class high-school training in basketball were close to zero. Bill's Uncle Bob decided that his nephew should grow up to be a baseball player. If Bill developed into a lefthanded pitcher, he might play good enough ball on Monroe's sand lots to earn a college scholarship. So Uncle Bob started early to convert...