Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report meant that the Administration had met a recession and licked it not by the kind of pump-priming and governmental interference dear to the hearts of New Dealers, but by trimming Government expenditures and by giving private industry the kind of climate and incentive that allow enterprise to flourish...
Labyrinthine beyond all final mapping are the convolutions of history. Nothing stays put. It was once settled, apparently, that Ivan the Terrible was terrible, until in 1945 Sergei Eisenstein's movie "proved"' that Ivan's epithet merely meant that he struck terror into the hearts of his father land's dastardly enemies. But if Ivan was only questionably terrible, what of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy? Here, surely, was solid ground. A nation that could trust neither czarist nor Soviet historians must be able to trust the rewritemen on its own Chicago newspapers...
...Britons after a five-hourlong heart-to-heart talk with the Russians. At one point in the evening, Attlee, Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky and Trade Minister Mikoyan explored the meaning of the word freedom. At last, through a bewildered interpreter, the three agreed that in the West it meant "freedom to choose"; in the Communist East it meant freedom "from having to choose...
...Thus the new Balkan pact, in effect, closes the last gap in NATO's ring around Europe, which begins in Iceland and extends to Mount Ararat. So happy did Tito feel about the whole thing that at the party after the signing, he passed word around that he meant to celebrate until the small hours; anyone who was sleepy should forget about protocol and leave ahead...
...most Guatemalans know, when Linares last ran the secret police under the late Dictator Jorge Ubico his men submerged political enemies in electric-shock baths and perfected a head-shrinking steel skull cap to pry loose secrets and crush improper political thoughts. Whatever else Linares' appointment meant, it suggested that Castillo Armas' latest command decision was not to toy with the enemy forces but to erase them...