Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level" to reinstate Ladejinsky; other Democrats talked of a congressional investigation. The Agriculture Department quickly denied that "antiSemitism played any part in the Ladejinsky case." Refugee Vitt said that some of his best friends were Jews, and that the DOA had violated its promise by publishing the letter Vitt meant to be used "circumspectly." It looked as if some people in Agriculture would be well cast in the role of Mortimer Gooch, the man who was so dumb it must have been premeditated...
They are perhaps meant to seem agelessly racial. Noah may be hooted at when he first reveals God's warning of the Flood; but he is to be feared and obeyed, and can force a reluctant Japheth-who resents God's cruelty in letting other men drown-into the Ark. Odets tells, too, of family weaknesses: a Noah who drinks, a Ham who wenches, a Shem who loves money, and of a cooped-up family's bickerings. But these people also have their loyalties and affections, and out of the Flood a despotic Noah learns humility...
...Some of us did not even vote on the question because we know that it meant nothing for the Ivy League," he explained. Olivar went on to explain that not all of the coaches had even expressed an opinion on the issue...
...mediator between these two conflicting forces is a sympathetic but misunderstanding hired hand. Parker Fennelly impersonates to perfection a cracked-voiced Yankee, and in view of the practice he has had as Titus Moody on the Fred Allen Show, there is little wonder. But because he is meant for comic relief, Holm should have given him more humorous lines, especially at the beginning...
...that you are my wife for me to hate you. If you were the wife of any other man, I own you might have charms.' " He told her he had "plotted to avenge her [first] refusal of him." He asked her, "with every appearance of aversion," if "she meant to sleep in the same bed with him": and during their wedding night, observing a candle "casting a ruddy glare through the crimson curtains of the bed," he cried in a loud voice: "Good God, I am surely in hell...