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Word: meant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the pencils do get to work, the Viet Minh would demand large areas that would be economically independent. Since the French control most of the valleys, this meant the French would have to trade rice-producing riverland for barren mountains. If the French had their way, the map would show the French positions as a series of closely grouped goose eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Begging or Truculence? | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...Hometown decision," snorted Hurley, as if he meant it. "There's been a lot of jealousy in Seattle. We fought there too often, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Talker | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...said that she knew what it meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Potshots at Santa Claus | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...knew what it meant-but she went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Potshots at Santa Claus | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Cohn drove his sharpest verbal barb at Adams when telling about Adams' telephone call to ask why Cohn had been ducking him. "I told Mr. Adams," Cohn calmly related, "I believed that he had been thoroughly dishonest. He asked me what I meant ... I told him that he had directly or indirectly made a blackmail threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Defendant | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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