Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coal from Wankie meant crisis for all Rhodesia. The copper mines had nine days' supply, railroads and power stations only enough for a week. Southern Rhodesia's newly elected Prime Minister Garfield Todd acted drastically. Six hundred white soldiers raced to Wankie. ¶ With one eye on Kenya's Mau Mau, many white Rhodesians were quick to cry "Native rising." Jasper Savanhu, a Negro M.P., accused the government of "using ruthless methods, including starvation and intimidation, to break the Negro strike." Attacked from both sides, Garfield Todd kept his head, and by so doing, saved many others...
...Edgar Hoover-as well as the 11,000 track fans present-decided on a plan. With Wilt not competing but calling out the times for each lap from positions in the infield, Ashenfelter would try to run eight evenly paced quarter miles of 66 sec. Thumbs down from Wilt meant Ashenfelter was behind schedule, up meant ahead, palms level meant on the button...
...play-however seriously meant or in places skillfully contrived-comes off largely a parlor game. The characters get to know themselves better than the audience knows the characters; the play means too much to mean-as a felt experience-much of anything at all. The meaning is not rooted in the farce, only squeezed out of it. In The Cocktail Party, the very symbol of a cocktail party, the central role of the psychiatrist, the prevailing Noel Coward morality and manners, expressed something immensely relevant to modern life; audiences might fiercely quarrel with Eliot's cure, but they could...
...example last week of what President Eisenhower meant by his new policy of partnership between the Federal Government and local public or private utility companies. Into Congress went two bills authorizing a deal between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Eugene, Ore. (pop. 36,000) to build a $34.5 million power and flood-control project on the state's McKenzie River. For its share, the Government plans to build a $23 million flood-control dam on the McKenzie. In turn, Eugene's city-owned power company will spend $10.5 million on a powerhouse...
...varsity was at full strength and primed to win. It started out as if it meant of knock off B.C. and thoroughly avenge two earlier Eagle victories. For two-line changes, the puck was constantly deep in the B.C. zone. Twice, Doug Manchester snaked through the defense to got clean shots at starting goalie Chick D'Entremont, only to have both deflected. But that brief flurry represented the high mark of Crimson pressure for the evening. Except for a moment in the final period when Job Bray swung the B.C. defense and poked the puck past D'Entremont...