Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alone in the Rain. Seeing his visitor off, Churchill murmured: "I will do all I can to help you." By this he meant that Britain would do its best to keep Anglophile Mendès in power. But not if it meant putting off German rearmament. Premier Mendès-France, said the British government, was left in no doubt that London still expected him to push...
Whether this doubletalk meant that Taruc was a changed (though unrepentant) man or was simply proclaiming a new tactical retreat of the party was hard to determine from his speech. The one-time Huk leader never once referred to his surrender (TIME, May 24), instead preferred to say that he "came down" to Manila. It was plain that the Magsaysay government was happy to have him in its hands instead of on its hands : the campaign against the Huk hideouts is going well, but is also costly...
...breach of faith to talk about such matters in public. Crevolin's careless attempt to explain away a few defeats only strengthened the smart-money boys' suspicions that now and then the fix might be on, that every entry in a race is not always "well meant." At Del Mar, where Crevolin's horses are now running, stewards called Crevolin on the carpet, sent a report to the California Horse Racing Board. In Chicago the Illinois Racing Board promptly started an investigation of its own. Already chastened, Andy Crevolin talked faster than ever in an effort...
...court of inquiry was held, of course. The whole countryside had been in an uproar of search parties ever since the Hooft baby had disappeared; but when everyone realized that Harry had meant no harm, the case was dropped. "You'll be let off, boy," said his grandfather, and sent Harry home...
...This meant Atlanta's famed Golfer . Bobby Jones, who said: "I resent any implication that the President would be susceptible to such an influence, and I resent the implication that I would be foolish enough to try to bring such influence to bear." Jones, who, with his wife, owns $18,000 worth of stock in the Southern Co. (whose chairman is Eugene Yates of the Dixon-Yates plan), said that he had not discussed the $100 million Dixon-Yates plan with Ike and that "it would come as a surprise to me if he had ever known...