Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge, 127-ft. mural for the Jorge Negrete Theater on the subjects of "Tragedy," "Comedy" and "Farce," Siqueiros was one-third finished before the guild's horrified Secretary-General Rodolfo Landa saw what Old Party Member Siqueiros was up to. By "Tragedy," it turned out, Siqueiros meant "the aggression of the government against the workers." A blazing blue-eyed soldier is slugging a striker while near by a mother weeps over the body of a youth draped in the Mexican flag. Sketched out on adjacent walls were Siqueiros' interpretations of "Comedy" ("the gangsterism of our unions") and "Farce...
Asked if he meant that he couldn't go, or just didn't want to go. Truman replied laughingly: "I said I couldn't go. You can put any interpretation that you like on that--as you always...
...defense of rank-and-file rights; Kennedy lost face; Humphrey, in absentia, looked silly. And on close second look Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, famous for his deft control of the Senate, looked like the man who had let it all happen. Wags whispered that his L.B.J. initials meant "Let's Block Jack...
...illness hung heavily on the President's mind in everything he did. "It is like losing a brother," he had said; and from Dwight Eisenhower, brought up one of seven brothers in Abilene, Kans., the remark had deep meaning. Nor was there any doubt that the President meant to keep Dulles on his staff, at least in name, as long as Dulles was able...
...Munoz was able to tell just when to push the Congress hard and when to ease up on his demands. In July 1952 Munoz walked out of the Senate with the plum in his hand. Puerto Rico had been granted commonwealth status. As Tugwell later explained it, "What Commonwealth meant was that there were arrangements between two equals, mutually satisfactory, which both desired to maintain. Munoz explains it in more concrete terms, "We have in common: citizenship, defense, market, international relations and currency...