Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking about (TIME, July 5). Promises of honorable kindness-no time clocks to punch, free schooling, dormitories, libraries-had lured thousands of young girls off farms to work at $10 a month, and built his silk mills into Japan's sixth largest textile company. But honorable kindness, also meant that officials penned them up in their dormitories, opened their mail, blocked romance, forced them to attend Buddhist services and recite such catechisms as: "All this day I shall be happy to pour all my body and soul into an all-out effort...
...fine English cast back for eight curtain calls. Wrotem Il Tempo of Britten's score: "A type of anthology of modern musical taste." Corriere della Sera applauded Britten's "sinister castle of sounds," but found it "difficult to establish even approximately what the new opera is meant to signify...
...Warner once explained that Ernie Nevers was a greater player than Thorpe because Nevers never stopped trying-rain or shine. Pop probably meant what he said, but he loved Thorpe because the old Indian shared his own uncomplicated love for football. Until the day he died, in Palo Alto last week, at 83, Pop never forgot Thorpe's excuse for failing to break up an opponent's pass: "It looked so pretty." Pop understood...
...Until I came to India," Redding says, "I had no idea that there was in me so great an urge to defend America . . . Communism meant little more than inter esting reading in the newspapers . . ." In India he met the enemy face to face-in Assam villages, where "even the small children gathered with their elders ... to chorus Jai to the Red flag"; in Hyderabad, where scarcely a day goes by without a Brahman being assassinated by the "Red revolutionists"; in Calcutta, where the hammer and sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier...
Then, to show that it really meant business, Justice announced that it was carefully investigating top Government housing officials suspected of extending favors to private builders (e.g., ex-FHA Assistant Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, who ducked behind the Fifth Amendment when Senators quizzed him). Justice indicated that there soon would be more indictments...