Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European Defense Community (to which he had said there was "no alternative") and the defeat in Indo-China. Both setbacks stemmed from a single mistake made a decade ago, and never corrected in spite of mounting evidence. The mistake: that the victory of France's allies over Germany somehow meant that France had recovered from the basic political weakness that caused its collapse in 1940. The postwar phrase?the Big Four?was a misnomer; France is not a great power, but a great civilization, politically paralyzed. EDC asked France to show a self-confidence it did not possess. Indo-China...
...years now?in Europe at least?the Communists have made 'peace' their private property. Even though people knew what the Communists meant, the idea in their hands helped them and hurt us. It looks now as if your Mr. Dulles is going to take peace away from the Communists and restore it to its real meaning...
...when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2. After the polls were closed, the two dissident voters came around to apologize in person. They had meant to cast their votes for Mike, they said, but they were illiterate and couldn't read the ballot...
Spiritual Greed. Everyone he meets lends force to the argument that all Christians were meant to "pray without ceasing." Like a self-helper by Norman Vincent Peale, The Way of a Pilgrim is crammed with appropriate case histories -a social gamut of unhappy people whose lives have been changed by the practice of interior prayer. Unlike a modern religious bestseller, though, the book does not suggest that he who prays will become healthier, wealthier or wiser-just happier...
...slopeline system, good theoretically, has never won acceptance. Pilots say that when an airliner is descending through low-lying clouds, the lights that are meant to help them sometimes turn into enemies. The critical moment comes when the pilot, who has been staring at his instruments and listening to radio voices, catches a glimpse of the fogshrouded earth and transfers to visual flying. Often he has only five seconds to shift his attention, size up the situation and make his decision...