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Word: meant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said Harriman: "Not one cent of this was turned over to Red Cross . . . Communities that don't help themselves . . . can scarcely expect in the future to be recipients of nationwide generosity." Harriman added the same thing had happened "elsewhere." A Red Cross pressagent told a newsman that Harriman meant Waco, Texas and Worcester, Mass., both scenes of destructive tornadoes last year. Teletype machines clacked out the story across the country-and the scrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Indian Givers? | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death to the man who answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: End of the Road | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...little drawn out by the suction of suspense that is too soon released. Nevertheless, the scene is charged with drama, effectively paced by Director Edward (The Juggler) Dmytryk, and well played. The massive closeup of Queeg in disintegration is almost as pitiful and terrifying as it was meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...found Him-"an old man sawing wood" by the light of a dim lantern. "We are the life which you have brought forth," said the deputies. "We are all the living who have struggled and struggled, who have suffered and suffered, who have doubted and believed . . . What have you meant by us?" God "passed his hand through his lank gray hair" and answered meekly: "I am a simple man." "We can see that," said the deputies indignantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Swede on a Tightrope | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...which might be harmful." He asserted that the Russians had deliberately exaggerated Germany's potential market in the U.S.S.R. He hit Brüning's "seesaw policy" as unsuitable, and as tending to create "distrust in Germany's reliability." Bruning hastily said that he had not meant his remarks to be publicized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Back to Rapallo? | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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