Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seigenthaler offered them $1,000 for their story. They refused. "If money had meant anything to us," said Betty McCuddy, "we wouldn't have done what we did. We were in love." But in the days that followed, some of the tale emerged anyhow. The course of love had not been easy. Running away had not cured Buntin of drinking. In Brownsville, where the couple settled in the early '305, he had lost job after job as a car salesman and service man. A fall from a curb had damaged his hip so badly that he had walked...
...resolution down as far as he could without draining it of all meaning: "The National Assembly . . . asks for assurances that the policy of building a united Europe will be continued . . ." Then Laniel put the squeeze on the Deputies by submitting the resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted down, not only would the government fall but the Assembly itself might be dissolved. The Deputies were properly horrified at the prospect of being prematurely ousted from their red plush seats in the Palais Bourbon...
...Assembly solved the problem in its own way, by means of abstentions. The vote: for the government resolution, 275; against, 244; abstentions, 103. This meant that the motion was carried, the government was still on its legs, and France would have a voice at Bermuda-but since a majority of the Deputies had failed to endorse EDC, it was an all but fatal blow to that embryonic enterprise. Said one diplomat: "If EDC is born in France, it will be born by Caesarean section. And it practically involves the death of the government bringing it forth...
...love, the introvert hiding from an extrovert world, the destructiveness of possessive motherhood are all possible choices. From the impressive stars of the play, Judith Anderson and Mildred Dunnock, the audience might expect some help in choosing, but even the cast appears unsure of what Mrs. Bowles' characters are meant to express. At the heart of the play are two unnatural mother-daughter relationships. In one, an iron-willed mother has crushed her child's personality, in the other, a wispy woman vainly seeks the affection of her daughter, a shrill hysteric who detests her. Beyond this, however, the play...
Until these issues died, they affected-and were meant to affect-elections. When these issues died, they did so because a genuine settlement had been achieved...