Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet puppet regime. And this fall of the East German regime would in turn have serious repercussions on the other satellite states of East Europe. There the Soviet-controlled governments are facing rising pressure. Many within the satellite countries believe that the spirit of Geneva meant something for them...
...drowsy as a pyramid after nearly two months, Washington found its focus again. More than any other President, Dwight Eisenhower had tried to distribute and delegate the awesome powers of his office. Yet, as all the world knew, the responsibility even in ; illness remained his. His return to Washington meant that he had shouldered the burden again...
...Roald Bergethon, dean of the college at Brown University, the students seem so tolerant of the beliefs of others that "if I had seen this same phenomenon in the '30s, I would have thought it was indifference, but today I know it isn't." This tolerance has meant that old gods have not been dethroned; they have merely been demoted. "Science students," says Goucher's Director of Religious Activities, Walter Morris, "have come to realize that science is accurate and true in those areas to which it has purposely limited itself." Freud is still studied respectfully...
...increased again in Holmes County, Editor Smith repeatedly attacked Sheriff Richard F. Byrd. Then, on the Fourth of July weekend last year, the sheriff drove up to a group of Negroes gathered about a small country store at Tehula. He asked one of them, Henry Randle, 27, what he meant by "whooping." The Negro denied any whooping, witnesses reported, and the sheriff cursed and struck him. When Randle raised his arm to ward off the blows, the sheriff drew his pistol and yelled, "Get going!" As Randle ran off, Sheriff Byrd reportedly shot him in the thigh...
Degas never meant his wax studies to be seen. He doubted his own results wrote a friend at the time: "I never seem to achieve anything with my blasted sculpture." He often journeyed to the Hébrard Foundry on the outskirts of Paris to pick up pointers. In his lifetime, he exhibited only one statue, an awkward ballet rat dressed in a real gauze tutu and hair ribbon. But even this and a few other waxworks caused his friend Renoir to exclaim: "Why, Degas is the greatest living sculptor." Degas was not so sure, once remarked: "To be survived...