Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year" and broke the record over his microphone. But the song caught on quickly, largely because many other German singers working the Wanderlust beat have never been farther from home than the casino at Travemünde. Freddy managed to sing as if he really knew what it meant to be a lonely traveler...
...serious side, Gibson's version of "Wayfaring Stranger" stood out. His general treatment of songs meant to convey bitterness, hardship, or sorrow, however, seemed to lack personal feeling and sensitivity, and he would do well to leave them to a master like Josh White...
...Shanghai, party secretaries from 37 major cities met with Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien to cope with a new crisis. Henceforth, the Vice Premier declared, city dwellers would start growing their own food on the "large tracts of land on the outskirts" of town. To outsiders, the announcement meant two things, one as grim as the other: 1) the start of the long postponed campaign to force the cities into the kind of anthill communes that now blight the countryside, and 2) tacit confirmation of the many reports that the people in Red China's cities are going hungry...
...beyond The College Handbook to find a definition of this most important and yet puzzling phrase . . . Now, at last, the phrase has been defined by the presidents of Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts . . . 'By high quality education.' say the four presidents, 'is meant a type of education which is equivalent to that which each of our institutions offer...
...connected with living in a house with a growing family." Davis ensured that he would be detached both physically and emotionally from the backyard by setting his retreat on steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete roof was meant to be both elegant and playful. During a rainstorm the extended roof-beam "gargoyle" rainspouts will channel water into the pool in a miniature cascade that any 18th century fancier of gazebos or octagonal summerhouses would have applauded...