Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child. "Last year, just when I was getting ready to leave one afternoon, a little girl asked me to hand her a box of Kleenex which, she said without pointing, was 'over there'". As it happened, "Over there" for the nine-year old who couldn't move her arms, meant a bedstand less than six inches from her fingers...
...Without Horns. Yet, despite all the Occupation's well-meant effort to liberate Japanese women, 70% of Japanese marriages are still arranged by parents, with no say-so left to the bride herself. A recent poll of eligible bachelors reveals that most of them rate "obedience" high in a prospective wife's virtues, and greybeards still happily recall the days when every Japanese bride was given a sword on her wedding to remind her that death was preferable to desertion. In the rural districts, where from time immemorial wives have been the best beasts of burden, today...
...Stanford Research Institute conducted a study of the Denver area, found that almost two out of every three shoppers believed that the stamps meant they were getting something for nothing. Though few had any idea of the actual worth of the stamps, four out of five customers saved them, partly because of "inner satisfactions from saving the stamps," partly because "redeeming the completed book gives a feeling of thriftiness...
...industry and vigor made an immense paraphrase of the remark of another Tory Englishman. Samuel Johnson, who said that every man thinks meanly of himself for not having worn a red coat. But red coats were out in 1914. War meant mud, barbed wire and lice. Kipling's only son John was killed fighting with the Irish Guards in the battle of Loos. Rudyard Kipling got letters from all the world, and some exulted in the mean thought that the laureate of war had got his comeuppance. As a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, he promoted...
...sooner had contracts been signed with the schools involved, than Daniel Ferris, the secretary of the A.A.U., announced that his group had not extended an official invitation to the Russians. What this meant, he said, was that the State Department would not issue the needed visas to the Russians. A spokesman for the Department verified this. "If the A.A.U. won't recognize the Russians," he said, "we won't issue visas. We've worked with them for years, and we'll go along with them on this...