Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inch. There was no use continuing the haggling. Mendès retorted by summoning his Cabinet, extracting a unanimous declaration of support for his stand. To make his point emphatic, Mendès announced he would not sign anything at all until he had a Saar settlement, proved he meant what he said by refusing to sign a purely procedural letter from the occupying powers to Adenauer...
...doubt that the Hughes report meant as much to anyone else...
...hoped to win tentative Assembly approval without staking his premiership on the outcome, but the Assembly did not let him. Shortly before 1 a.m. on the second day of debate, the Premier, his voice thick with disgust, announced: "I must pose the question of confidence." That meant that the vote would be delayed until this week and if the Mendès government is beaten, the Cabinet would have to resign...
Retreat into Mystery. Two weeks after Fermi reached New York, he heard about the famous telegram telling Niels Bohr that uranium fission had been discovered in Germany. Fermi knew what it meant: that enormous energy might be extracted from the uranium atom. Soon he was part of the vast U.S. attempt to release that energy in an atomic bomb...
...strike of the Red-led, independent United Electrical Workers ended last week at Detroit's Square D electrical-equipment company. After the company had reopened its plant and employees started drifting back to work (TIME. Sept. 20), union leaders and management hammered out a settlement that meant victory for the company but saved face for the unionists. Among the terms: a 4? hourly wage hike (v. the 5? demanded and the 3? offered), an extra holiday, arbitration of 27 cases involving employees who were fired during the strike for alleged violence and intimidation...