Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buddhists & Freethinkers. What can be done to reduce the ravages of stress? There is no single rule, for as Psychiatrist Douglas R. MacCalman points out, some men thrive on distractions and dangers that would send others to hospital beds. Suggested the bishop of Manchester: "The church is meant to supply, though I freely admit it does not always do so, one of those deficiencies of modern life which . . . cause stress and anxiety . . . Within the family life of the Christian Church...
...back to Cherokee as interest and amortization on its bonds. In effect, the company, which employs 700, will get a modern, tax-free plant, instead of an older building on which it paid taxes in Knoxville. While Knoxville was angry about the deal, Sevierville was jubilant, figured it meant hundreds of new jobs for the townspeople and more money in the pockets of merchants...
...eight biggest film distributors: Loews, Paramount, RKO, Fox, Warner, Universal, United Artists and Columbia. The Crest asked for a crack at first-run movies. One by one the distributors turned down the request; first-run films, they said, were for first-run houses, and by that they meant the downtown theaters that did the biggest business...
...President's memo did not specify any industries or any regions, but the South was certain that Ike meant New England, and Southern politicos rent the air with cries of alarm. "An invitation to corruption," Georgia's Richard Russell called it. "Creeping socialism," said Arkansas' Bill Fulbright. Georgia's Walter George, ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, declared that it would be better for the Federal Government to pay unemployment compensation to New England's jobless rather than "to throw the economy of the nation out of kilter" by encouraging the expansion of industry...
...they did everything but bash their heads against the wall and kick over chairs because they had lost a game to "a bunch of ringers." Two or three leered up to Vag and asked where they could get a drink in this joint, and he told them, because it meant they would go to bed sooner...