Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evidently, this meant that Knowland can recess the Senate when its work is done. The committee will stay in Washington to study the Flanders motion and sift charges against McCarthy. When the committee is ready to report, the Senate can be called back to Washington to vote on the conduct of the junior Senator from Wisconsin...
...carriages are part of Europe's. Most of Washington's open-air sculptures, such as Begni del Piatta's baroque memorial on the Potomac (opposite), are just handsome. A handful, such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens' quiet Grief (p. 72), merit long study. What Saint-Gaudens meant to express, according to recent research, was not grief at all but "the intellectual acceptance of the inevitable." The capital as a whole attests the fact that Washington, L'Enfant, and a host of later men foresaw the inevitable greatness of the U.S., accepted it, and planned accordingly...
...intervention in Korea [by 'our' Hinton meant the U.S. intervention] is looked on very much as we would look on Chinese armies driving to the Rio Grande. [But] always I found people, even total strangers, friendly to me, an American. They wanted to know all about Lin Ken, 'who freed the slaves,' and Lo Sze Fu (Roosevelt), 'who wanted one world...
...remarks were meant, and everywhere taken, as a clear slap at Russia and a friendly hand to the West. Predicted Teheran's influential newspaper Kayhan: "Before long the Iranian government will clarify its policy with respect to the two conflicting power blocs, and will express its preference for the bloc that holds views similar to this country...
...Leonard Hall to reason with Dworshak. The Senator's answer was the same: a flat no. He was convinced that by filling the job he would please only one man and offend many. At one point Dworshak exploded that he would not change his stand even if this meant that the G.O.P. high command would not support him this year. Soothed Deputy Attorney General William Rogers: "Of course we're going to help you." Snapped Dworshak: "Yes, by holding my head under water...