Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally the police-no longer dressed as nuns-moved in. As they arrested Bertele on the street corner, he tried to rub out the k, confessed later at D.S.T. headquarters that a clean k was an all-clear signal, a smudged letter meant danger. The police went to the next rendezvous, inscribed a clear k on the wall, and seized Kazimierz Dopierala, a secretary at the Polish embassy, when he trustingly showed...
...Prince Souphanouvong, pro-Red cousin of the King of Laos. "I signed the agreement," said the prince. "I guarantee it will be respected. If the Pathet Lao battalions don't respect the agreement, I no longer consider them friends." To the Laotian government and the army, integration meant that the Communist troops would be parceled out in small numbers among the other troops; to the Red commanders, it meant that their battalions would be made royal but remain intact, always ready for action against the government...
Shut Up or Get Out. For such extremists, the "good reasons" are that one year of De Gaulle has meant the election across Algeria of 15,000 Moslem municipal councilors, the promise of massive economic aid, and a regal contempt for those settlers who want an outdated "Papa's Algeria," i.e., an Algeria run comfortably by its white-settler minority. This was hardly what the settlers demonstrated...
...were at a near record 19,768 new cars daily, so good that Ward's Automotive Reports predicted production of 500,000 units in May, another 500,000 in June, and possibly even another in July, traditionally the tailoff month in every model year. For steel, it meant one more increase, with schedules calling for 94.1% of rated capacity and record production of 2,665,000 tons this week...
...maligned martyr, takes all the sharpness from the story; the movie-made transformation of Julien into a hero of almost homeric proportion destroys Stendahl's original theme. Even Danielle Darrieux's fine acting cannot detract from the fact that The Red and The Black is not meant to be a colossal soap opera...