Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal of equality? Imagine two identical schools, each with similar gymnasiums, cafeterias and classrooms, each with equally good libraries and faculty. The only difference is that one is for Negroes, the other for whites. The courts of the Southern states claim this is all that is meant by equality and their attitude toward the sphere of the Fourteenth Amendment follows naturally from this belief...
...jabbing his brush at social ills. Meanwhile, he made himself a master of expressionist techniques, mingling hot and cold colors as delightfully as Kokoschka, and squeezing and stretching figures as boldly as Soutine. Last year he began work on a huge canvas of a gangster funeral, which was frankly meant to spotlight political corruption of the big cities. Among the mourners he put "two widows, one very, very shapely," and "the chief of police, come to pay his last respects-a face at once porcine and acute...
...Trip is an honestly meant play by a competent playwright. But it puts Playwright Foote in much the same plight as his old Mrs. Watts. In a sense, he is running away from his material-and to as ghostly a destination. What begins as sharp domestic drama drifts into the sort of mild fantasy that seems, at its worst, mere filler. Once his old lady runs away, Playwright Foote can do nothing more than improvise, temporize, insert those small episodes in bus stations and buses that pay off as scenes but bankrupt the play as a whole. The play, furthermore...
...growers at Corona, the success of Sunkist's new lemonade concentrate meant more vitamins for the growth of the world's largest food cooperative. Since 1893, when a few growers took the name "Southern California Fruit Exchange" and joined forces to market their crop, the co-op has blossomed into a huge pyramid with a base of 14,000 growers and an apex of hired managers who run the business. Not many of Sunkist's growers own more than 15 acres apiece. But together they market about 75% of all the citrus fruit in California and Arizona...
According to the president, the writer of the Gospel was showing how Jesus meant to put new life, symbolized by the wine, into the formalized and static religion of his time, symbolized by the water...